Politics & Government · Political Theory
A topic within Political Theory, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
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Crito
Plato · 399 BCE
Socrates argues that having accepted the benefits of a state's laws for a lifetime, he is bound by an implicit agreement to accept its judgment even…
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Hind Swaraj
Mohandas Gandhi · 1909
Political freedom without self-rule of the passions is worthless, so Gandhi argues Indians owe no obedience to unjust colonial law and should…
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Plato
Socrates argues that having accepted the benefits of a state's laws for a lifetime, he is bound by an implicit agreement to accept its judgment even when it is unjust, and escaping his sentence would itself be a wrong.
about 25 minutes to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyÉtienne de La Boétie
Tyranny survives only because the many actively cooperate in their own subjection, so obedience rather than force is what a tyrant actually depends on, and it can be withdrawn without a single blow struck.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Mohandas Gandhi
Political freedom without self-rule of the passions is worthless, so Gandhi argues Indians owe no obedience to unjust colonial law and should withdraw cooperation from it rather than either submit or answer violence with violence.
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