ISBN:
9780511663741
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xi, 192 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in philosophy and law
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Legitimacy of governments
;
Authority
;
Political obligation
;
Anarchism
;
Legitimität
;
Politik
;
Autorität
;
Staat
;
Staat
;
Autorität
;
Politik
;
Legitimität
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1: The fallacious argument from the failure of political obligation: Legitimacy and the duty to obey -- The correlativity thesis -- Legitimate political authority. pt. 2: The 'law is coercive" fallacy: The concept of coercion -- Political theory without coercion -- Coercion redivivus. pt. 3: The inner sphere of privacy fallacy: The private sphere -- The moral and the social -- The social and the political. CONCLUSION: The state for what?
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511663741
URL:
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URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511663741
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