|
 |
 |
Antigone: Political Authority
Title: Antigone: Political Authority
Category: Social Sciences / Education
Details: Words: 415 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Antigone: Political Authority
Political power results from the fear of force. The individual acts out of a fear of consequences of disobedience and in accordance with the desdire for self-preservation. Political Authority results from a belief in the moral correctness of the organization in question. The individual acts of a sense of obligation and acknowledges the right of the ruler, morally, to rule and the moral correctness of the laws are accepted. The laws are obeyed for their …showed first 75 words of 415 total…
You are viewing only a small portion of the paper.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
|
|
…showed last 75 words of 415 total…and prosper, it must stifle individual humans in their pursuit of knowledge. Since Socrates, a just man, merely pursuing the path of knowledge and wisdom, must be executed to ensure political community's stability, the community need act unjustly to preserve itself and thereby can have no moral authority. Ultimately, the suggestion is, as in Antigone, that political authority does not exist. The implication is that political communities thereby, rule by powers of fear and force.
Need a custom written paper?
|
|
275 words per page