Legitimacy of political authority and civic obligations
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For Hegel, identity among wills is achieved because of, not in spite of, co-existing differences between particular wills.
Nations need to have their own states
Secular rulers must be subject to the pope.
The state must be neutral
A Catholic priest who is an expert in Jewish Law can make valid interpretive arguments about what Jewish Law requires without personally endorsing Jewish Law's basic norm.
A Leviathan is not necessary to capture the collective will for purposes of collective moral responsibility
A city comes to be
A claim that contract law exemplifies a general concern for social and income inequality would be hard to maintain.
A commitment device that makes defection costly can transform a non-credible promise into a credible one.
A complete theory of the normativity of law must encompass moral issues about political obligation.
A concretized legal rule is morally normative because the moral principle that the common good requires authoritative institutions to specify, apply, and enforce rules on relevant matters presumptively and defeasibly entails such normativity.
A constitutional monarch's explicit 'I will' is necessary to express the general will in legislation.
A contractarian cannot easily justify equal insurance premiums for disabled and non-disabled persons.
A contractual exchange involves an implicit act of recognition.
A contractual exchange of commodities involves an implicit act of recognition between the parties.
A contractual exchange should not be thought of simply as an occurrence consequent upon two beings with natural animal wants and some natural calculative rationality.
A contractual promisor recognizes her promisee as an authority over her with respect to the promised performance.
A contractualist can justify equal insurance premiums without prior knowledge of one's condition because such an agreement could not be reasonably rejected.
A covenant is voided by fear only if the cause of that fear arises after the covenant was made.
A covenant made without present performance by either party is void in the state of nature upon any reasonable suspicion.
A covenant made without present performance is valid and binding when a common power exists over both parties with sufficient right and force to compel performance.
A decentralized market system has informational advantages over centralized coordination
A deontological structure is not a necessary feature of a system of exchange.
A dispositional theory of contractual intention may offer a better fit with orthodox contract theory and modern practice than available alternatives
A doubly hypothetical agreement cannot bind any actual person
A fair and impartial starting point for bargaining is necessary to produce secure and stable agreements
A full or perfect pre-cultural/pre-civil state of nature is purely mythical or hypothetical
A genuine, unforced consensus on human rights norms is possible only if we allow for disagreement on the ultimate justifications of those norms.
A government's commitment to refusing negotiation with terrorists can reduce future terrorist attacks.
A joint commitment comes into existence when each would-be party openly expresses readiness to be jointly committed and this is common knowledge among the parties.
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
Thomas
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a medieval Catholic philosopher and theologian who wrote about politics, ethics, and how reason and faith relate to each other.
state of innocence
The prelapsarian human condition discussed in medieval theology, used as a thought experiment about the nature of political authority.
Aristotle
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived over 2,000 years ago and is one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He studied nearly every subject—from animals and plants to politics and ethics—and developed practical ways of thinking that shaped how people understand the world. His ideas on logic, nature, and how to live a good life are still taught and debated today because he focused on observing the real world rather than just abstract theories.
Capitalists
People who own businesses, factories, or invest money to make profits—basically the wealthy business owners.
Collective interests
What's good for a group as a whole, even if it might not be good for individual members of that group.
contractualism
A moral theory presented as a genuine alternative to both consequentialism and Kantian ethics, one that coheres with distinctively non-utilitarian intuitions in certain key cases
general will
The collective will that emerges from an assembly of citizens, either through procedural constraints on self-interested deliberation or through the exercise of citizen virtue
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