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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... ideal law . ' On this view there are moral rights and duties wherever there is human intercourse , though there may be no durable societies and no states ; that is , politically organized societ- ies . " From this standpoint , natural ...
... ideal of equality , " the former asserting that men are equal , the latter asserting that men should be equal . " The idea of equality consists in a fac- tual statement and is therefore susceptible of proof or disproof ; the ideal of ...
... ideal . " 30 The implications of this argument are momentous . It suggests that the participatory ideal is practicable only in small political entities , and that if an attempt were to be made to realize it in a larger entity such as a ...
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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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