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Gilbert, Margaret. "De-Moralizing Political Obligations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209348_index.html>

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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: De-Moralizing Political Obligations Margaret Gilbert Abstract: There are many versions of “the problem of political obligation”. One, which goes back as far as Plato’s Crito, is this: does one have a special obligation to support the political institutions of one’s own country in particular---and if so, what is the ground of this obligation? The qualifier “moral” is left out of this particular statement, and, I argue, with good reason. The existence and nature of any such special obligations should be of interest, whether or not these obligations are moral obligations as these are generally understood---as moral requirements. Yet what other kind of obligation is there, that makes a difference to what one has reason to do? Encapsulating the argument of my 2006 book A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) I argue that there is such a kind of obligation and that both political philosophers and political scientists need to understand this.

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