Civil Disobedience
Document Type
Encyclopedia Entry
Publication Date
2014
Editor(s)
Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy
ISBN
9781139026741
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE RECEIVES Rawls’s most careful and extended consideration in A Theory of Justice. It is there deined as “a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government” (TJ 320). It “is engaged in openly with fair notice” (TJ 321) and involves a “willingness to accept the legal consequences of one’s conduct” (TJ 322).
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Civil Disobedience
,
in
The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
104
(Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy ed.,
2014).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026741.035
