Parfit’s Moral Arithmetic and the Obligation to Obey the Law

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (2):191-213 (1990)
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Though consequentialist theories of political obligation have been widely criticized in recent years, a series of arguments presented by Derek Parfit, in Reasons and Persons, are now believed to have given this position new life.

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