On Civil Disobedience

Number 13 / Part I. Music. 4. Promoting Development and Change: Civil Disobedience in The Legal-Political Thinking and The Musical Field

“…Monteverdi, Ah, dolente partita!, measures [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Indeed, in his Ah, dolente partita!, the first of the fourth book of madrigals (1603), Monteverdi lets the Canto and Quinto perform the first three syllables at the unison, and then bifurcates the two voices, introducing a dissonant interval E-F in the Canto part, while the D of the Quinto is retarded by prolonging the previous C. This creates in the first measures some dissonant intervals of seconds among the different voices, and later similarly dissonant intervals of sevenths, which Artusi considered to be "crudities" and undue licenses. The civil disobedient relies therefore on his own conscience, which suggests him to express his deeply-held belief in the injustice of a specific rule, and to testify his commitment to higher obligations overriding this rule.…”

“…Mozart, Quartet K 465, measures [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] In fact, in this work Mozart opens up the Introduction with a Ab major triad, gradually formed in measures 1-2 by the cello, the viola and the second violin, but straight after undermines this quiet atmosphere by means of a crossrelation, putting a dissonant A in the part of the first violin. The whole Adagio is characterized by a lack of fixed key, resulting in a feeling of growing tension, which will be resolved only with the beginning of the sunny C major Allegro.…”

Revitalizing democracy through civil disobedience

“…5 Specifically, Habermas adopts the definition of the dissident phenomenon proposed by John Rawls quite literally (Habermas, 1985, p. 83-84). Rawls's definition, which in turn explicitly follows Bedau (1961), states: "a public, non-violent, conscientious yet political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government" (Rawls, 1971, p. 363).…”

Plato’s Crito on Civil Disobedience and Political Obligations

“…Można się także spotkać z poglądem, jakoby Sokrates był zwolennikiem absolutnego posłuszeństwa nawet w sytuacjach, kiedy wymagałoby to niemoralnego postępowania (np. Bedau 1998;Brownlee 2007;Martin 1970). Pragnę wykazać, że przypisywanie takich stanowisk filozofowi jest błędne.…”