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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... regard to the United States and other con- temporary pluralistic and liberal societies , it certainly misses the mark with regard to those contemporary societies in which religion plays a much stron- ger role , and which do in fact make ...
... regard , “ The truth of the propo- sition that all human beings are by nature equal is confined to the one re- spect in which that equality can be truly affirmed ; namely their all being equally human , their having the species ...
... regard to the matter of inequality of merit , Dewey had already remarked that the fact that the belief in equality is an element of the demo- cratic credo does not suggest a concomitant belief in the equality of natu- ral endowments ...
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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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