The Nature of Authority

Kenneth Einar Himma (Autor)

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75 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-50781-3 (ISBN)

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This Element, The Nature of Authority theory explains the nature of authoritative guidance. It posits that authoritative tellings are given by personal beings, rationally competent beings, under a plausible claim of right, imposed by beings with power, create obligations, and are backed by a reasonable threat of detriment to deter noncompliance.

The Nature of Authority provides a comprehensive theory of the nature of authoritative guidance. It argues that the following claims exhaust the constitutive properties of authoritative tellings: authoritative tellings (1) tell subjects what to do; (2) give rise to reasons to comply; (3) are issued by personal beings and govern the behavior of personal beings; (4) are issued by rationally competent beings and govern the behavior of rationally competent beings; (5) are issued under a claim of right that counts as plausible in virtue of being grounded in a system to which subjects acquiesce as governing their behavior; (6) are issued by beings with the power to impose their will on subjects with respect to what they do; (7) create obligations to comply; and (8) are backed by a threat of detriment that is reasonably contrived to deter enough noncompliance to enable the system to minimally achieve its ends.

Preface; Part I. Preliminary Considerations: 1. Introduction; 2. The existence conditions of practical authority; 3. Claims (1) through (7) and the sanctions thesis; 4. The Razian theory of practical authority; Part II. The Existence Conditions of Practical Authority; 5. The constitutive properties of authoritative tellings; 6. Other candidates for constitutive properties of authoritative tellings; Part III. Claims (1) through (7) and the Sanctions Thesis: 7. Practical authority as telling people what to do; 8. Practical authority as a source of reasons to comply; 9. Practical authority as a personal relationship; 10. Practical authority as rational; 11. Practical authority as the power of will-imposition; 12. Practical authority as grounded in a claim of right; 13. Practical authority as giving rise to obligations; 14. Must authoritative tellings create exclusionary reasons?; 15. Objections – Of angels and emergency volunteers; Conclusions; Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Philosophy of Law
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-009-50781-8 / 1009507818
ISBN-13	978-1-009-50781-3 / 9781009507813
Zustand	Neuware