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Three anarchical fallacies : an essay on political authority / William A. Edmundson

Edmundson, William A.,i1948- [Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 192 pages)

Cambridge studies in philosophy and law

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-66374-1 ; 978-0-521-62454-1 ; 978-0-521-03751-8

MD 3550

 

Legitimität  Politik  Autorität 

 

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How is a legitimate state possible? Obedience, coercion and intrusion are three ideas that seem inseparable from all government and seem to render state authority presumptively illegitimate. This book exposes three fallacies inspired by these ideas and in doing so challenges assumptions shared by liberals, libertarians, cultural conservatives, moderates and Marxists. In three clear and tightly argued essays William Edmundson dispels these fallacies and shows that living in a just state remains a worthy ideal. This is an important book for all philosophers, political scientists and legal theorists as well as other readers interested in the views of Rawls, Dworkin and Nozick, many of whose central ideas are subjected to rigorous critique.