The document discusses whether citizens have an obligation to obey the law of a reasonably just state. It presents the view that there is a prima facie moral obligation to obey, but others refute this by arguing that no state can be truly just, and so there is no obligation to obey even in a just state. It also discusses Raz's contention that if there is no general obligation to obey, then the law does not have general authority over citizens that entails a duty to obey.
The document discusses whether citizens have an obligation to obey the law of a reasonably just state. It presents the view that there is a prima facie moral obligation to obey, but others refute this by arguing that no state can be truly just, and so there is no obligation to obey even in a just state. It also discusses Raz's contention that if there is no general obligation to obey, then the law does not have general authority over citizens that entails a duty to obey.
The document discusses whether citizens have an obligation to obey the law of a reasonably just state. It presents the view that there is a prima facie moral obligation to obey, but others refute this by arguing that no state can be truly just, and so there is no obligation to obey even in a just state. It also discusses Raz's contention that if there is no general obligation to obey, then the law does not have general authority over citizens that entails a duty to obey.
Every citizen has a prima facie moral oligation to obey
the law of a reasonably just state.
IS this true?
Raz wants to challenge this idea of the instrumentalist
but there is also those who refute this idea stating
no obligation to obey on the ground that no state can be just.
even in a just state, if there can be such, there is no obligation
to obey the law.
Raz contends, if there is no general obligation to obey, then the
law does not have general authority, for to have authority is to have a right to rule to those who are subject to it. and a right to rule entails a duty to obey.
Govt without Authority
lets go to the idea of the premise of the instrumentalist