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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 ever possessed that sort of authority.
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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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Book Title: The Problem of Political Authority
Book Subtitle: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
Authors: Michael Huemer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281661
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28164-7Published: 29 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28165-4Published: 29 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28166-1Published: 29 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 365
Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Science, Political History