Civility and Disobedience Confucius to walk the mountains

to walk the mountains

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Civility and Disobedience Confucius to walk the mountainsOriginally published in 1975, this book seeks to examine the problem of political when are we obligated to obey the laws? It presents a critique of traditional justifications of obligation especially of social contract theory and attempts to develop a fresh theory of obligation as both justified and limited by the need to substitute the culture of civility for the violence and barbarism of pre political society. Civility, it is argued, can be attained