{"id":6236,"date":"2014-05-21T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2014-06-28T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:41:01","slug":"2014-06-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawls, Civil Disobedience, and Edward Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Martin Carcieri\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-15\/\">Rawls, Civil Disobedience, and Edward Snowden<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Martin Carcieri\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-15\/\">Martin Carcieri<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Martin Carcieri\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-15\/\">June 15, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4813\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-07-28-Martin-Carcieri-200.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Carcieri\" width=\"171\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Carcieri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under what conditions does violation of law have the moral legitimacy of civil disobedience? If Edward Snowden were prosecuted in an American court for leaking classified NSA documents to journalists, for example, would his actions be justified under principles of civil disobedience as articulated by John Rawls, the most influential political philosopher of our time? In his third presentation of Rawls&#8217; work to HCSV, Marty Carcieri (Associate Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University) will present Rawls&#8217; theory of civil disobedience and apply it to the case of Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/98980482\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/98980482\">Humanist Community Forum (2014-06-15): Rawls, Civil Disobedience, and Edward Snowden<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawls, Civil Disobedience, and Edward Snowden Martin Carcieri June 15, 2014 Under what conditions does violation of law have the moral legitimacy of civil disobedience? If Edward Snowden were prosecuted in an American court for leaking classified NSA documents to journalists, for example, would his actions be justified under principles of civil disobedience as articulated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rawls, Civil Disobedience, and Edward Snowden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[210,38,208,12,67,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6376,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}