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ON BEING BOUND:
LAW, AUTHORITY, AND THE POLITICS OF OBLIGATION
by
Kory DeClark
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PHILOSOPHY)
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Kory DeClark
Object Description
| Title | On being bound: law, authority, and the politics of obligation |
| Author | DeClark, Kory |
| Author email | kdeclark@gmail.com;kdeclark@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-05-24 |
| Date submitted | 2012-06-13 |
| Date approved | 2012-06-13 |
| Restricted until | 2012-06-13 |
| Date published | 2012-06-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Watson, Gary |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Marmor, Andrei Keating, Gregory |
| Abstract | I have two principle aims in this dissertation. I attempt in Part I to establish the need for an adequate theory of political obligation by highlighting the challenges facing what I consider to be the two leading contemporary theories: George Klosko’s theory of fair play, and Christopher Wellman’s theory of samaritanism. I then attempt, in Part II, to meet this need with a novel theory of my own—what I call the authority theory—which attends to important normative considerations many theorists working on the problem have ignored. While I argue that the authority theory more plausibly satisfies the conditions on a successful theory of political obligation, the most philosophically gainful feature of the theory is, from my perspective, the use it makes of the concept of authority in addressing the problem. |
| Keyword | political obligation; Joseph Raz; exclusionary reasons; authority; obligation; normal justification thesis |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | DeClark, Kory |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-DeClarkKor-887.pdf |
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| Full text | ON BEING BOUND: LAW, AUTHORITY, AND THE POLITICS OF OBLIGATION by Kory DeClark A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHILOSOPHY) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Kory DeClark |
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