A Duty to Resist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Duty to Resist write by Candice Delmas. This book was released on 2018-08-01. A Duty to Resist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it. Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice. We must expand political obligation to include a duty to resist unjust laws and social conditions even in legitimate states. For Delmas, this duty to resist demands principled disobedience, and such disobedience need not always be civil. At times, covert, violent, evasive, or offensive acts of lawbreaking can be justified, even required. Delmas defends the viability and necessity of illegal assistance to undocumented migrants, leaks of classified information, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, sabotage, armed self-defense, guerrilla art, and other modes of resistance. There are limits: principle alone does not justify law breaking. But uncivil disobedience can sometimes be not only permissible but required in the effort to resist injustice.
Terrorism and the Right to Resist
Terrorism and the Right to Resist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terrorism and the Right to Resist write by Christopher J. Finlay. This book was released on 2015-08-07. Terrorism and the Right to Resist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A systematic account of the right to resist oppression and of the forms of armed force it can justify.
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil Disobedience write by Henry David Thoreau. This book was released on 2015-05-26. Civil Disobedience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifesto Motivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen, he argues, not only to disobey a bad law, but also to protest an unjust government. His message of nonviolence and appeal to value one’s own conscience over political legislation have resonated throughout American and world history. Peppered with the author’s poetry and social commentary, Civil Disobedience has become a manifesto for civil dissidents, revolutionaries, and protestors everywhere. Indeed, originally so unpopular with readers that Thoreau was forced to buy back over half of the books from his publisher, this work has gone on to inspire the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
When All Else Fails
When All Else Fails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When All Else Fails write by Jason Brennan. This book was released on 2020-12-08. When All Else Fails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their government: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in When All Else Fails, Jason Brennan argues that there is fourth option. When governments violate our rights, we may resist. We may even have a moral duty to do so. For centuries, almost everyone has believed that we must allow the government and its representatives to act without interference, no matter how they behave. We may complain, protest, sue, or vote officials out, but we can't fight back. But Brennan makes the case that we have no duty to allow the state or its agents to commit injustice. We have every right to react with acts of "uncivil disobedience." We may resist arrest for violation of unjust laws. We may disobey orders, sabotage government property, or reveal classified information. We may deceive ignorant, irrational, or malicious voters. We may even use force in self-defense or to defend others. The result is a provocative challenge to long-held beliefs about how citizens may respond when government officials behave unjustly or abuse their power
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Duty of Civil Disobedience write by Henry David Thoreau. This book was released on 1903. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
