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In this chapter we are going to examine the nature of political obligation and the origin of the state. We are going to ask why there should be laws and why they should be obeyed. We shall also examine different images of society to see what light they cast on the concepts of freedom and authority.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Political Writings (C. E. Vaughan, 1915), pp. 305–6.
See J. R. Lucas, Democracy and Participation (Penguin, 1976).
Benjamin Gibbs, Freedom and Liberation (Sussex University Press, 1976), p. 100.
K. R. Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies, vol. II (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966).
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Pinchin, C. (1990). Social and Political Philosophy. In: Issues in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20352-9_5
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