Moral Judgment, Historical Reality, and Civil Disobedience

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1、MoralJudgment,HistoricalReality,andCivilDisobedienceAuthor(s):DavidLyonsReviewedwork(s):Source:Philosophy&PublicAffairs,Vol.27,No.1(Winter,1998),pp.31-49Publishedby:Wiley-BlackwellStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2672840.Accessed:26/10/201211:10YouruseoftheJSTORarchiveindicatesyo

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4、HistoricalReality,andCivilDisobedienceThisarticleconcernstwostrandsofcivildisobediencetheory.Onein-volvesthemoraljudgmentoftheorists.Theotherconcernsmoraljudg-mentsthattheoristsascribetothosewhoengageincivildisobedience.Ourphilosophicalliteratureoncivildisobedienceislargelyaproductoft

5、helate196osandearly1970s.Respondingtocriticsofthecivilrightsandanti-VietnamWarmovements,philosophersarguedthatunlawfulprotestcansometimesbejustified.Foranumberofthesewriters,jus-tifyingcivildisobediencemeansovercomingaseriousmoralobjection.Theyassumewehaveamoralobligationtoobeythelaw-

6、inotherwords,politicalobligation.'Regardingthisfirststrandofcivildisobedi-encetheory,Iarguethattheassumptionofpoliticalobligationismor-allyuntenable.WorkonthispaperwasaidedbyafellowshipfromtheNationalEndowmentfortheHumanities.EarlierversionswerepresentedatBostonUniversity,CornellUnive

7、rsity,Har-vardUniversity,NewYorkUniversity,theUniversityofNebraska,theBostonChapteroftheConferencefortheStudyofPoliticalThought,andthePacificDivisionoftheAmericanPhilosophicalAssociation.IamgratefulforcommentsIreceivedonthoseoccasionsandfromtheeditorsofPhilosophy&PublicAffairs.Iamalso

8、grate