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The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good

The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good

Mark, Daniel

Hardcover

Series: Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government

PhilosophyGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0268208212
ISBN13: 9780268208219
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Aug 15 2024
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Challenging the prevailing understanding of the authority of law, Daniel Mark offers a theory of moral obligation that is rooted both in command and in the law's orientation to the common good.

When and why do we have an obligation to obey the law? Prevailing theories in the philosophy of law, starting with the work of H. L. A. Hart and Joseph Raz, fail to provide definitive answers regarding the nature of legal obligation. In this highly original and effective new work, Daniel Mark argues that there is a prima facie moral obligation to obey the law simply because it is the law. In Mark's view, the best concept of law--one that allows for the possibility of justified authority and obligation--defines law as a set of commands oriented to the common good. Legal obligation, he proposes, shares defining features with moral obligation and with religious obligation while aligning wholly with neither.

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