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Hanna F. Pitkin

Hanna F. Pitkin. Hanna F. Pitkin: OBLIGATION AND CONSENT. Consent Theory: sources God, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls Pitkin and the doctrine of “hypothetical consent Methodology What “people really do” Socrates and the Nazi official procedural and substantive criteria What are real choices?.

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Hanna F. Pitkin

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  1. Hanna F. Pitkin

  2. Hanna F. Pitkin: OBLIGATION AND CONSENT • Consent Theory: sources • God, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls • Pitkin and the doctrine of “hypothetical consent • Methodology • What “people really do” • Socrates and the Nazi official • procedural and substantive criteria • What are real choices?

  3. The use of examples • important that there are lots of different cases • who thinks of consent • not the blacks, the civil disobedient • but Socrates and the official • but the official gives us pause about resting things on consent • Socrates: here he accepts his obligation to remain but he as also disobeyed: how does he know to what he has consented • Cannot be tacit (how would we know) 19 • this cannot be a matter of what the majority thinks (but what the majority thinks a matter to consider • although this can be evidence (20)

  4. How do we assess a government? • Two forms for assessing government • procedural (rules followed) • substantive (people well treated) • BUT: p 44 • idea of the grammar of the word ‘obligation’ • suppose I ask why are you ever obliged to obey even legitimate authority --- traditional consent theory takes this for granted: confuses the self assumption of contract with the self assumption of obligation (23)

  5. JOHN RAWLS and STANLEY CAVELL

  6. The “grammar” of consent • The case of promising • The place of promising: Rawls and Cavell • Deontology • Right intentions • Teleology • What is a duty to do • “We” and our obligations • who is to say?

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