POL SCI 13

Hanna F. Pitkin: OBLIGATION AND CONSENT

I. Consent Theory: sources

i. God, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls

II. Pitkin and the doctrine of “hypothetical consent

i. Methodology

ii. Socrates and the Nazi official

1. procedural and substantive criteria

III. The “grammar” of consent

i. The case of promising

ii. The place of promising: Rawls and Cavell

iii. Deontology and teleology

IV. “We” and our obligations

i. who is to say?