CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND THE QUESTION OF ITS LEGITIMACY

Authors

  • Luiz Felipe Hallmann Piccoli Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS

Keywords:

Civil Disobedience. Legitimacy. Moral Progress. Resistance Right. Civil Authoritarianism.

Abstract

This article deals with the problem of civil disobedience, and it has the
intention of analyze in what extent an illegal action committed to challenge an unjust law can be morally justified. We start from the historical description of the emergence of the analyzed phenomenon and present a definition. Later, we expose how civil disobedience was understood by Thoreau, Rawls, Arendt and Habermas that dealt with the justifications for their practice. We argue about how civil disobedience could help improve the democratic system by functioning as a corrective against injustice. We conclude by highlighting aspects of phenomena that looks like but are not civil disobedience.

Author Biography

Luiz Felipe Hallmann Piccoli, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS

Doutorando em Filosofia pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS. Mestre em Filosofia pela UNISINOS (2010). Graduado em Filosofia Licenciatura e Bacharelado também pela UNISINOS (2007). Bolsista do CNPq entre 2005 e 2007. 

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Occursus - Revista de Filosofia - V8N1 - Jan./Jun. 2023

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2024-04-24

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Hallmann Piccoli, L. F. (2024). CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND THE QUESTION OF ITS LEGITIMACY. Occursus - Revista De Filosofia, 8(1 - Jan./Jun.), 49–58. Retrieved from https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/Occursus/article/view/10326

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Vol. 8 No. 1 - Jan./Jun. (2023): Occursus - Revista de Filosofia

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