Three Anarchical Fallacies An Essay on Political Authority 1st Edition by William A Edmundson ISBN 0521624541 9780521624541

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ISBN 10: 0521624541

ISBN 13: 9780521624541 

Author: William A. Edmundson

How is a legitimate state possible? Obedience, coercion and intrusion are three ideas that seem inseparable from all government and seem to render state authority presumptively illegitimate. This book exposes three fallacies inspired by these ideas and in doing so challenges assumptions shared by liberals, libertarians, cultural conservatives, moderates and Marxists. In three clear and tightly argued essays William Edmundson dispels these fallacies and shows that living in a just state remains a worthy ideal. This is an important book for all philosophers, political scientists and legal theorists as well as other readers interested in the views of Rawls, Dworkin and Nozick, many of whose central ideas are subjected to rigorous critique.

• Provocative book critiquing some of the central ideas of such influential thinkers as Rawls, Nozick and Dworkin
• Will interest philosophers, political scientists and legal theorists

Table of contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Fallacious Argument from the Failure of Political Obligation:
1. Legitimacy and the duty to obey
2. The correlativity thesis
3. Legitimate political authority
Part II. The ‘Law is Coercive’ Fallacy:
4. The concept of coercion
5. Political theory without coercion
6. Coercion Redivivus
Part III. The Inner Sphere of Privacy Fallacy:
7. The private sphere
8. The moral and the social
9. The social and the political
Conclusion: the state for what?
Index.

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