Conscientious Refusal
Document Type
Encyclopedia Entry
Publication Date
2014
Editor(s)
Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy
ISBN
9781139026741
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
RAWLS DEFINES CONSCIENTIOUS refusal as “noncompliance with a more or less direct legal injunction or administrative order” (TJ 323). This contrasts with civil disobedience, which he deines 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). Conscientious refusal thus differs – or, strictly speaking, may differ – from civil disobedience in several ways (TJ 324–325).
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Conscientious Refusal
,
in
The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
139
(Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy ed.,
2014).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026741.044
