What is it to obey the law? What is it to disobey? Philosophers have paid little attention to these questions. Yet the concepts of obedience and disobedience have long grounded many perennial debates in moral, legal, and political philosophy. In this essay, I develop systematic accounts of each concept. The Standard View of obedience—that to obey the law is to act for a certain sort of reason provided by the law—has long been taken for granted. I argue against this and other views of obedience, and develop an account of the knowledge and intention required in acts of obedience. I then develop a symmetrical account of the disobedience involved in acts of civil disobedience. The purpose of the essay is to develop a more systematic understanding of these concepts, in order to identify more precisely what is at stake in debates of political obligation, civil disobedience, and the authority of law.

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遵守法律

什么叫遵守法律？什么叫不听话？哲学家很少关注这些问题。然而，服从和不服从的概念长期以来一直是道德、法律和政治哲学中许多长期争论的基础。在这篇文章中，我对每个概念进行了系统的描述。服从的标准观点——遵守法律就是为了法律规定的某种理由而行动——长期以来被认为是理所当然的。我反对这种和其他关于服从的观点，并阐述服从行为所需的知识和意图。然后，我对公民不服从行为所涉及的不服从进行了对称的描述。本文的目的是更系统地理解这些概念，以便更准确地确定政治义务辩论中的利害关系，