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Luciano Venezia
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Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation develops a new interpretation of Hobbes’s theory of political obligation. According to the account developed in the book, the directives issued by the sovereign as introducing authoritative requirements, so that subjects are morally obligated to obey them.

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Luciano Venezia is Assistant Research Fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and Instructor at the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. He has a MA from the University of Arizona and a Ph D from the University of Buenos Aires and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He specializes in political and legal philosophy as well as the history of political thought.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 161 ● ISBN 9781137490254 ● File size 1.7 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4542687 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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