The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey by Michael Huemer

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

Michael Huemer

524 pages • first pub 2012 (editions) user-added

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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