Publication details
Problém legitimní autority I.
| Title in English | The Problem of Legitimate Authority I. |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Právník - Teoretický časopis pro otázky státu a práva |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | legitimacy; legal authority; political authority; moral authority; philosophical anarchism |
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| Description | This is the first part of a two parts essay on the problem of legitimate authority. Part I. focuses on the explanation of fundamental conceptual distinctions.We distinguish several kinds of legitimacy, e.g. ethical, sociological and legal legitimacy.What is the nature (if any) of legal legitimacy? Is it reducible to ethical legitimacy? Is it reducible to sociological legitimacy? Or is it something specific and independent? The distinction between epistemic and practical authority is very important in this respect. Epistemic (expert) authorities provide good advice, practical authority provides commands.Most theorists view political authority as a kind of practical authority rather than epistemic authority.However, is it possible to reduce practical authority to epistemic authority? This is also a very interesting and much disputed question. The concept of legitimacy has conditions of justification and obligatory consequences. How to justify the duty to obey political authority? And what is the nature of this duty? Is it moral duty? |