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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Autor principal: Eunice Ostrensky
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Publicado: Universidad de Sevilla 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/fc55f88e757c4186905bf7437129cff3
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