Obedience
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 12-04-17 10:42
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- Obedience
- What is obedience?
- Is a requirement or duty to act in particular way
- There is a situation where you obliged to do something which implies an element of coercion
- There is also having an obligation to do something which suggests only moral duty
- This is more like a promise, there are moral consequences if we break our obligations to people
- It is out of fear of the hand of the law that we carry out our obligations
- Political obligation is mostly what is the foundation of these ideas
- There is also having an obligation to do something which suggests only moral duty
- Natural Duty
- These are voluntaristic theories, similar to the relationship between child and parent
- SC theories fail to recognise how society helps shape its members and invest them with duties and responsibilitie-s
- Conservatives go further and see the family or church constructing the individual (functionalism)
- Meaning that we obey because of divinity and also to respect other peoples liberty
- Conservatives go further and see the family or church constructing the individual (functionalism)
- Many see society and political obligation as natural for humans, so vulntary behaviour is also a moral reason
- Socialist theory
- Humans have a need for community and cooperation as we are social creatures
- Kropotkin rejects political obligation all together
- Instead he feels that a healthy society demands sociable cooperative and respectful behaviour from its members
- Kropotkin rejects political obligation all together
- Humans have a need for community and cooperation as we are social creatures
- Contractual Obligation
- A social contract is a social agreement made between citizens and the state
- That the state offers benefits to us but in return we must yield to its sovereignty
- Plato and the death of Socrates
- Despite being expected to exile himself, or pay to be released, Socrates obeyed the capital punishment looming above him
- He did this because of the social contract theory, he had lived a good life under Athenian Law and thus obeyed its ruling. This is called teleological argument
- Political obligation arises out of the benefits derived from living within an organised community
- He did this because of the social contract theory, he had lived a good life under Athenian Law and thus obeyed its ruling. This is called teleological argument
- Despite being expected to exile himself, or pay to be released, Socrates obeyed the capital punishment looming above him
- Plato and the death of Socrates
- Yet most are forcably placed into this contract, natives are born into it without any say
- The poorest may even say they receive no benefits from the state, so why should they follow?
- Socrates at the time he was writing, it was easy for him to move state but in today's modern world this is hard
- The poorest may even say they receive no benefits from the state, so why should they follow?
- That the state offers benefits to us but in return we must yield to its sovereignty
- Hobbes in Leviathan
- The social contract protects from the natural state of mankind
- The state doesn't need to reciprocate anything to its citizens. The existence of any state, not matter how repressive, is better than nothing
- The social contract protects from the natural state of mankind
- Rousseau: The Social Contract
- Hobbes and Locke have a selfish view of human nature
- The state should reflect the general will of people
- Instead it represents the selfish will of some, the selfish wishes of each member
- The state should provide what the people need and not what they want
- Instead it represents the selfish will of some, the selfish wishes of each member
- The state should reflect the general will of people
- Hobbes and Locke have a selfish view of human nature
- Locke: There two different contracts
- 1. Citizens sacrifice a portion of their liberty to secure order and stability
- 2. Trust is undertaken between a society and its government gives protection and rights to its citizens
- A social contract is a social agreement made between citizens and the state
- What is obedience?
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