{"id":1622,"date":"2019-04-13T22:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/?page_id=1622"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:17:20","slug":"what-do-we-owe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/what-do-we-owe\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Owe to Our Government?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1622","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1635 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/11219055_940952222610893_838412492803537893_n.jpg\" alt=\"Information for the event with an image of a person in an Anonymous V for Vendetta Mask near the Austin &quot;Hi How Are You&quot; graffiti art\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/11219055_940952222610893_838412492803537893_n.jpg?w=851&amp;ssl=1 851w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/11219055_940952222610893_838412492803537893_n.jpg?resize=300%2C111&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/11219055_940952222610893_838412492803537893_n.jpg?resize=768%2C284&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","column_2":"<h2><strong>Don Becker, &#8220;What Do We Owe to Our Government?&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>September 30, 2015<br \/>\n7:00-9:00 p.m.<br \/>\nEastview Campus 8500<\/p>\n<p>Participants<br \/>\n<strong>Don Becker, Philosophy Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderator<br \/>\n<strong>Matt Watkins, Philosophy Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ACC Philosophy professor Don Becker will explore these questions: What obligations do we have to government and why do we have them? Do we have obligations to obey the law, simply because it is the law? What obligations do we have to obey or resist unjust laws?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to the main page for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/\">past events<\/a>\u00a0from the Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""}],"hero_content":false,"sidekick":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}