Nature of Authority

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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Foreword

This Element provides a comprehensive rigorous conceptual account of the nature of practical authority and its constitutive properties.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Einar Himma, Kenneth Einar (University of Zagreb) Himma, Himma Kenneth Einar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009507813
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950781-3
• No. of pages: 76
• Series: Elements in Philosophy of Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law