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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... reason itself is a self - sufficient arbiter of what constitutes such essentiality . Such an assertion is , of course , subject to challenge on the basis that human reason itself may reflect a variety of conditioning factors which can ...
... reason , is by nature equal in all men ; and that the diversity of our opinions is not due to some men being endowed with a larger share of reason than others , but solely to this , that our thoughts proceed along different paths , and ...
... reason not to do so . ” 94 The implicit aspect of the argument being made by Berlin is that equal- ity does not require justification ; only inequality does . Similarities , unifor- mities , symmetries , and other common relationships ...
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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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