The Levellers’ Conception of Legitimate Authority
This article examines the Levellers’ doctrine of legitimate authority, by showing how it emerged as a critique of theories of absolute sovereignty. For the Levellers, any arbitrary power is tyrannical, insofar as it reduces human beings to an unnatural condition. Legitimate authority is necessarily...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Sevilla
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Araucaria |
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| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28264625008 |