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The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey - Softcover

Huemer, M.

 
9781137281654: The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1137281650 ISBN 13: 9781137281654
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The state is often ascribed a special sort of authority, one that obliges citizens to obey its commands and entitles the state to enforce those commands through threats of violence. This book argues that this notion is a moral illusion: no one has ever possessed that sort of authority.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, where he has worked since 1998. He is the author of Skepticism and the Veil of Perception and Ethical Intuitionism , as well as more than 40 articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1137281650
ISBN 13 
9781137281654
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
396
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