Political Philosophy: What?

When Are We Obligated to Obey Government?

Baron Low, Everyone should do his bit: Enlist Now, Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster No 121

Is Legitimacy What Keeps Government from Being...

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When is government legitimate? Like organized crime, government coerces and relies on coercive extraction of revenues. So what distinguishes it from organized crime?

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When Should We Lay Down Arms and Settle? Which settlements should be kept, and which may be broken?

Is Society Fundamentally a Collection of Ethnic or Kin Groups?

Gathering of (Representatives of) Scottish Clans, Northwestern United States, 2005

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Is Society Fundamentally a Collection of Individuals?

Detail of the Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: Or, the Manner, Forme and Power of a Common wealth, Ecclesiastical and Civill (1651)

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May Civilians Ever Be Held Liable For What Is Done by Their Armies? What Role Do Race, Xenophobia, and Collective Emotion Play in Such Judgments?

U. S. Government Propaganda Poster after News of the Bataan Death March Became Public

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What Counts as Racial Injustice?

Margaret Bourke-White, At the Time of the Louisville Flood, 1937

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