The concept of acquiescence

Journal of Political Philosophy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 409-432

  Woodard, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034369816     PISSN: 09638016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9760.00110     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. On coercion see Fr ankfurt 1988; Nozick 1972; Steiner 1974-75; Steiner 1994; Wertheimer 1987. Assume that the police officers live in a just society and identify with their role: they are not coerced into chasing by thei r superiors (or by anyone else).
2. On necessity and duress see Ashworth 1991; Birks 1985; Cope 1985; Elliott 1991; Halson 1991; McCall-Smith 1975; Richards 1987; Uniacke 1989; Wallace 1994. I will later argue that we should not restrict the concept of necessity to cases in which the regrettable circumstances have entirely natural causes; but even on this broadened understanding, the police chase case is not a case of acting under necessity.