Occam's Razor and Non-Voluntarist Accounts of Political Authority

Luke Maring

doi:10.1017/S001221731700018X

Occam's Razor and Non-Voluntarist Accounts of Political Authority

Luke Maring

Philosophy

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Abstract

Certain non-voluntarists have recently defended political authority by advancing views with a two-fold structure. First, they argue that the state, or the law, is best (or uniquely) capable of accomplishing something important. Second, they defend a substantive normative principle on which being so situated is sufficient for de jure authority. Widely accepted tenets undermine all such views.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	159-173
Number of pages	15
Journal	Dialogue-Canadian Philosophical Review
Volume	56
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S001221731700018X
State	Published - Mar 1 2017

Keywords

Occam's Razor
Samaritanism
non-voluntarist
normative consent
philosophical anarchism
political authority

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Philosophy

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