dc.contributor.advisor | Chrisman, Matthew | en |
dc.contributor.author | Fitzmaurice, Joseph | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-02T09:48:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-02T09:48:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/35660 | |
dc.description.abstract | Discussion of civil disobedience is dominated by the position that for civil
disobedience to be permissible it must be nonviolent. I have provided an argument
for the justification of violence in acts of civil disobedience. In order to make this
argument I forward an assessment of what I believe successful acts of civil
disobedience should do. Following this I give an analysis of violence, highlighting
the variety of acts falling under this concept. From this analysis I argue that violence
can be physical, psychological or targeting property. As well as this violence can be
measured along two dimensions: severity and proportionality. Such an analysis of
violence is lacking in much of the anti-violent civil disobedience literature. My
defence begins by responding to the two main positions against violent acts of civil
disobedience. I identify these arguments as the moral and practical arguments
against violent civil disobedience. I complete my argument for the permissibility of
violent civil disobedience by arguing that each form of violence may be justified
under specific circumstances. This is achieved through an application of the
concept violence and by forwarding theoretical and actual examples of legitimate
civil disobedience for destruction of property, coercion and self-defence. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | The University of Edinburgh | en |
dc.subject | Civil Disobedience | en |
dc.subject | Violent Civil Disobedience | en |
dc.title | Violence and civil disobedience | en |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | en |
dc.type.qualificationname | MSc Master of Science | en |