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Must we (dis)obey unjust laws?

Grant number: 24/00236-9
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
Start date: August 01, 2024
End date: July 31, 2025
Field of knowledge:Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
Principal Investigator:Álvaro de Vita
Grantee:Guilherme Cardoso de Moraes
Supervisor: Darrel Moellendorf
Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Institution abroad: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany  
Associated to the scholarship:22/09444-8 - Must we (dis)obey unjust laws?, BP.DR

Abstract

Must we (dis)obey unjust laws? The project proposes to answer this fundamental question by mobilizing the theoretical-normative debate around the concept of civil disobedience as a way of articulating the relationship between imperfect democracies and social injustices. Corresponding to our duties of obedience to just laws, this research will seek to defend the existence of political and moral duties to resist injustice, including an obligation to civilly disobey laws that are blatantly unjust. Thus, the objectives are: (i) to contribute to filling a gap present in contemporary political theory, namely, the little attention that has been given to the issue of social injustice, especially when compared to social justice; (ii) to accompany the theoretical-normative movement of recovery and renewal of the concept of civil disobedience as part of the concern about how to deal with injustices in our current world.

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