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

365 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Modern states commonly deploy coercion in a wide array of circumstances in which the resort to force would clearly be wrong for any private agent. What entitles the state to behave in this manner? And why should citizens obey its commands? This bo...

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