Normative Consent and Authority
In his recent book Democratic Authority, David Estlund defends a strikingly new and interesting account of political authority, one that makes use of a distinctive kind of hypothetical consent that he calls ‘normative consent’: a person can come to have a duty to obey another when it is the case tha...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2013
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Journal of moral philosophy
Année: 2013, Volume: 10, Numéro: 3, Pages: 255-275 |
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David Estlund
B Consent B Political Authority B normative consent B Political Obligation |
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Résumé: | In his recent book Democratic Authority, David Estlund defends a strikingly new and interesting account of political authority, one that makes use of a distinctive kind of hypothetical consent that he calls ‘normative consent’: a person can come to have a duty to obey another when it is the case that, were she given the chance to consent to the duty, she would have a duty to consent to it. If successful, Estlund’s account promises to provide what has arguably so far remained elusive: the basis for the authority of suitably democratic laws. In this paper, I argue that, despite its promise, the account Estlund develops is, in a crucial respect, incoherent: the principle of normative consent that he offers relies on a claim about a hypothetical situation, but the hypothetical situation at issue is one that, according to the principle itself, is morally impossible. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5243 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of moral philosophy
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/174552412X628887 |