{"id":12193,"date":"2014-11-07T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12193"},"modified":"2023-01-17T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T05:08:06","slug":"conscientious-objection-and-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12193","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious Objection and Civil Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kimberley Brownlee<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"161\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RoutledgeCompanionPhilLaw.jpg\" alt=\"Conscientious Objection and Civil Disobedience\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>From the chapter introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of this chapter is to consider two types of dissent that are generally described as conscientious, namely, civil disobedience and conscientious objection, both of which raise pressing normative questions not only about the proper parameters of dissenters\u2019 rights and duties within a reasonably good society, but also about both the scope of legitimate toleration of assertions of conscientiousness and the appropriate legal and political responses to conscientious disobedience. In what follows, I begin by outlining the conceptual territory of civil disobedience and conscientious objection. I then offer a qualified endorsement of the moral justifiability of these two practices before examining both the scope and legitimacy of their status as moral rights and their grounds for legal defensibility. Among other things, I challenge the dominant liberal position that, in relation to both moral rights and legal defenses, a more compelling case can be made on behalf of private conscientious objection than on behalf of civil disobedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Brownlee K. Conscientious Objection and Civil Disobedience. In: Marmor A editors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Philosophy-of-Law\/Marmor\/p\/book\/9781138776234\">The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law<\/a>. 2012;527-539. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberley Brownlee From the chapter introduction The purpose of this chapter is to consider two types of dissent that are generally described as conscientious, namely, civil disobedience and conscientious objection, both of which raise pressing normative questions not only about the proper parameters of dissenters\u2019 rights and duties within a reasonably good society, but also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conscientious Objection and Civil 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