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1、PresumptiveBenefit,Fairness,andPoliticalObligationAuthor(s):GeorgeKloskoReviewedwork(s):Source:Philosophy&PublicAffairs,Vol.16,No.3(Summer,1987),pp.241-259Publishedby:Wiley-BlackwellStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2265266.Accessed:17/10/201220:13YouruseoftheJSTORarchi
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4、w.jstor.orgGEORGEKLOSKOPresumptiveBenefit,Fairness,andPoliticalObligationInthisarticleIexplorethepossibilityofgroundinggeneralpoliticalob-ligationsupontheprincipleoffairness.Recentscholarshaveforcefullycriticizedthetraditionalargumentsinfavorofpoliticalobligation,callingint
5、oquestionthepossibilityofageneraltheoryofobligationfoundedupontheassumptionsofliberalpoliticaltheory.IThesescholarscriticizetheprincipleoffairness,andIwillattempttorespondtotheirobjections.2IamespeciallyconcernedwithcounteringonespecificargumentwhichIcallthe"limitingargumen
6、t,"variationsofwhichareadvancedbynu-merousscholars,includingRawlsandNozick.SectionIbrieflyexaminestheprincipleoffairnessandpresentsthelimitingargument.SectionIIcountersobjectionstotheprinciple,includingthelimitingargument,anddiscussesthecircumstancesunderwhichtheprincipleis
7、abletocreateprimafaciepoliticalobligations.SectionIIIappliestheprincipletowiderquestionsofpoliticalobligation.IwishtothankMichaelJ.SmithandtheEditorsofPhilosophy&PublicAffairsforvaluablecriticismsandsuggestions.i.A.J.Simmons,MoralPrinciplesandPoliticalObligations(Princeton:
8、PrincetonUni-versityPress,1979);C.Pateman,TheProblemofPoliticalObligation(NewYork: