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(2017) Encouraging openness, Dordrecht, Springer.
Obstructing the realization of civil responsibility
political, sociological, historical, and psychological aspects of civil responsibility
Chemi Ben-Noon
pp. 333-348
This article connects two of my research fields: obeying the law (understanding the essence of civil disobedience and civil responsibility in democratic states), and flaws in reasoning (understanding the role of cognitive biases in ordinary and fateful decisions). Prof. Joseph Agassi made a decisive contribution to these research directions and accompanied me over many productive years.My contribution deals with the ways in which our cognitive structure, the state, its organs, and those who cooperate with it (either consciously or unconsciously), obstruct the functioning of responsible citizens in a democratic state. I shall present the actions the state employs for this purpose, along with insights from research into cognitive biases. The paper represents a search for a more accurate presentation of the idea of civil responsibility in a democratic state, along with the state's ways of obstructing responsible citizens' attempts to realize their civil responsibility.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_28
Full citation:
Ben-Noon, C. (2017)., Obstructing the realization of civil responsibility: political, sociological, historical, and psychological aspects of civil responsibility, in N. Bar Am & S. Gattei (eds.), Encouraging openness, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 333-348.
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