"Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"

This thesis begins with an Introduction which briefly describes the two basic theses of Wolff's position. Firstly, Wolff argues that political authority cannot be justified on moral grounds because there is an irresolvable conflict between political authority and autonomy - man's fundament...

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Main Author: Tan, Kuan Aw
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Language:English
Published: 1980
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description This thesis begins with an Introduction which briefly describes the two basic theses of Wolff's position. Firstly, Wolff argues that political authority cannot be justified on moral grounds because there is an irresolvable conflict between political authority and autonomy - man's fundamental moral duty. Secondly, he argues that no political theory can succeed in resolving this problem and in particular classical democratic theory has failed to do so. Hence Wolff concludes that political authority must be rejected and anarchism is the only conclusion left for a rational man.
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spelling usm-611182024-09-13T07:57:27Z http://eprints.usm.my/61118/ "Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis" Tan, Kuan Aw P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) This thesis begins with an Introduction which briefly describes the two basic theses of Wolff's position. Firstly, Wolff argues that political authority cannot be justified on moral grounds because there is an irresolvable conflict between political authority and autonomy - man's fundamental moral duty. Secondly, he argues that no political theory can succeed in resolving this problem and in particular classical democratic theory has failed to do so. Hence Wolff concludes that political authority must be rejected and anarchism is the only conclusion left for a rational man. 1980-08 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/61118/1/Pages%20from%20Tan%20Kuan%20Aw.pdf Tan, Kuan Aw (1980) "Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis". Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
spellingShingle P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
Tan, Kuan Aw
"Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"
title "Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"
title_full "Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"
title_fullStr "Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"
title_full_unstemmed "Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"
title_short "Wolff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"
title_sort "wolff's philosophical anarchism - an analysis"
topic P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
url http://eprints.usm.my/61118/
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