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Do You Believe in (Political) Authority?
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<blockquote data-quote="MoonlessNight" data-source="post: 71774063" data-attributes="member: 13255"><p>Keep in mind that I'm only asking whether any political official has any authority of any type over any person. It's a pretty broad question. In particular, I'm not asking something like "is everyone living in a nation under the authority of all of its public officials?" I'm not even asking "is there a public official, in some nation, who has authority over all the citizens of his nation?" Usually authority is restricted both in who is placed under it as well as in what things can be demanded through the use of authority.</p><p></p><p>For example, it could be said that a teacher has authority over his students in terms of making demands of their time in class attendance and studying, as well as making demands that they behave in a respectful manner in class. But generally speaking a teacher wouldn't have authority over whether a student ate dessert with supper. The teacher's authority extends to things related to the classroom only.</p><p></p><p>Keeping in mind that the question is rather broad, it looks like you've answered affirmatively. That is, at the very least a soldier is under the authority of his commander (and presumably the chain of command/authority leads to the commander-in-chief who is definitely a public official).</p><p></p><p>The reason that I'm asking the question is that I'm finding in many political discussions that it seems as though many people <em>don't</em> believe in political authority. They may <em>call</em> things authority or talk about obedience to authority, but often this will boil down to "you should obey the law so you don't get thrown in jail" or "the laws make sense so they should be followed," i.e. to a statement that "officials have power over me, so I obey them" or "officials have convinced me that their orders are good, so I obey them." This makes many political discussions extremely difficult.</p><p></p><p>I'm just posting this thread out of curiosity of how widespread the notion of "there is no political authority" is. Nothing more than that.</p><p></p><p>Of course if it does turn into a deeper discussion of the nature of political authority I wouldn't mind that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonlessNight, post: 71774063, member: 13255"] Keep in mind that I'm only asking whether any political official has any authority of any type over any person. It's a pretty broad question. In particular, I'm not asking something like "is everyone living in a nation under the authority of all of its public officials?" I'm not even asking "is there a public official, in some nation, who has authority over all the citizens of his nation?" Usually authority is restricted both in who is placed under it as well as in what things can be demanded through the use of authority. For example, it could be said that a teacher has authority over his students in terms of making demands of their time in class attendance and studying, as well as making demands that they behave in a respectful manner in class. But generally speaking a teacher wouldn't have authority over whether a student ate dessert with supper. The teacher's authority extends to things related to the classroom only. Keeping in mind that the question is rather broad, it looks like you've answered affirmatively. That is, at the very least a soldier is under the authority of his commander (and presumably the chain of command/authority leads to the commander-in-chief who is definitely a public official). The reason that I'm asking the question is that I'm finding in many political discussions that it seems as though many people [I]don't[/I] believe in political authority. They may [I]call[/I] things authority or talk about obedience to authority, but often this will boil down to "you should obey the law so you don't get thrown in jail" or "the laws make sense so they should be followed," i.e. to a statement that "officials have power over me, so I obey them" or "officials have convinced me that their orders are good, so I obey them." This makes many political discussions extremely difficult. I'm just posting this thread out of curiosity of how widespread the notion of "there is no political authority" is. Nothing more than that. Of course if it does turn into a deeper discussion of the nature of political authority I wouldn't mind that. [/QUOTE]
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