存一份 UCL 的 contemporary political philosophy 课程阅读清单：公民抗命。清单编辑：Dr.Avia Pasternak
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Even relatively just states engage in what some or most of their citizens perceive as unjust or wrongful policies (e.g. engagement in unjust wars or racially discriminating laws). What ought citizens do in the face of flagrant political injustice? Some theorists and political activists argue that the proper reply to serious injustice is civil disobedience - a conscientious refusal to take part in and comply with an unjust law . Under what circumstances, if ever, do citizens have a right and even a duty to disobey an unjust law ? How does civil disobedience sit with citizens´ political obligations? Des civil disobedience have unique features that set it apart from rebelion or conscientious refusal?
Required readings :
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971 or 1999 ed.) Chapter Vl sections 55-58
David Lyons,＇Moral Judgment, Historical Reality , and Civil Disobedience ', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 27(1)(1998): 31-49.
Kimberlee Brownlee,＇Features of a Paradigm Case of Civil Disobedience＇, Res Publica ,10(4)(2004)：337-351.
Discussion paper :
Ronald Dworkin,＂Civil Disobedience＂in his Taking Rights Seriously (1977)
Further readings :
Kimberley Brownlee Conscience and Conviction : The Case forCivil Disobedience, (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012).
Vinit Haksar,＇Rawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobedience,＇Inquiry, 19(1976) ：151-192.
John Simmons, Moral Principles and Political Obligations ( Princeton : Princeton University Press,1979), ch.VIl sec.I.
David Lefkowitz, On a Moral Right to Civil Disobedience', Ethics, 117(2007): 202-233.
Peter Singer, Democracy and Disobedience (Oxford : Clarendon Press ,1973). H.A. Bedau (ed.), Civil Disobedience in Focus (London : Routledge, 1991)(an
excellent collection with key readings).
Plato, Crito (edition of choice).
Joseph Raz , The Authority of Law (Oxford : Clarendon ,1979), sec.14-15.
Michael Walzer, Obligations : Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1970).
Andrew Sabl, Looking Forward to Justice : Rawlsian Civil Disobedience and its Non - Rawlsian Lessons, in The Journal of Political Philosophy, 9(3)(2001).
David Enoch,‘Some Arguments against Conscientious Objection and Civil Disobedience Refuted,’in Israel Law Review, 36(2002): 227-253.
Questions in preparation for the seminar :
What is civil disobedience?
Must civil disobedience be non-violent?
Under what conditions, if any, is it justifiable to engage in Civil disobedience?
What role, if any, does civil disobedience play within a reasonably just society?
