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The Rationality of Utilitarianism's Obligation to Abide by the Law

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DOI: 10.23977/jsoce.2022.040212 | Downloads: 6 | Views: 818

Author(s)

Nan Gengxin 1

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1 The Law School of Tianjin University of Commerce , Tianjin, 300134, China

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Nan Gengxin

ABSTRACT

The law-abiding obligation, or political obligation, is about whether citizens or residents bear the burden of abiding by a country's laws and respecting political institutions. The problem of moral obligation. There are many kinds of law-abiding obligation theories, but I think the utilitarian law-abiding theory is more reasonable in the contemporary. 

KEYWORDS

Utilitarianism, Actively abide by the law, Moral obligation

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Nan Gengxin, The Rationality of Utilitarianism's Obligation to Abide by the Law. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 53-56. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.040212.

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