The Orthocratic StateBloomsbury Academic, 30. 6. 2003. - 216 страница Sicker argues that it is the achievement of orthocracy as the motivating concept of the state rather than democracy as its optimum form that is crucial for mankind in the 21st century, notwithstanding that the widespread adoption of substantive democracy may be the best currently conceivable means for reaching the goal of universal responsible statehood. In a critique of much modern political theory, Sicker reexamines the essential idea of the state as well as its purpose as understood from a variety of perspectives, a subject that has largely been neglected over the past several decades as a subject of interest to political theorists in the United States. He then considers the relationship of the state to its constituents, a subject that leads to a discussion of rights and obligations, and whether that relationship is defined entirely by the state or whether its constituents are endowed with natural rights that are independent of the state that the state must take into account in asserting its authority. This is followed by an extensive discussion of the corollary concepts of generic, social, political, and economic equality, and concludes with a consideration of some ideas that might serve as the motivating principles of an orthocratic state. |
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... freedom and not the right of men to equal freedom . The latter proposition would not actually assert any right to freedom , but only that if men were to be granted freedom , they would have a right to equal measures of it . Negative ...
... freedom . In an imaginative work describing a discussion among Socrates , Jefferson , and Lenin , the first argues : “ The freedom to choose a course of action implies in the first place a set of alternatives , some of which must be ...
... freedom to do all that he wills , provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ... We must therefore adopt this law of equal freedom in its entirety as the law on which a correct system of equity is to be based . " 70 ...
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The Essence of the State | 17 |
Natural and Legislated | 43 |
The Idea and Ideal of Equality | 75 |
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