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The sanctity of the individual conscience

On Political Obligation is a transcript, more or less, of a lecture course which Judith Shklar gave at Harvard in the spring of 1992, shortly before her death in September of that year. As the editors explain in their Introduction, it was Shklar’s practice to write out her lectures in full, before distilling each lecture down to a list of principal points which she would use as the basis for delivery in class. The course comprised twenty-three lectures, the texts of eighteen of which survive. It will be a source of regret to many readers of this book that her five lectures on modern contract theory, from Hobbes to Kant, remain only in very fragmentary form. In addition to the lecture course, the editors include a talk given at Berkeley in March 1990, with the title ‘Conscience and Liberty’, and also a previously published text called ‘Why Teach Political Theory?’. ‘The only reason to teach political theory’, Shklar writes in the latter,