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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... things . Nor is there any intrinsic reason implicit in the nature of things why there should be any fundamental change in this con- dition even after the eventual arrival in his vicinity of other humans , who presumably would be ...
... things , by nature , as held in common , a view main- tained by Thomas Aquinas in medieval times . " The common possession of things is to be attributed to natural law , not in the sense that natural law decrees that all things are to ...
... things one against the other ; but they who can do the greatest things , ( namely , kill ) can do equal things . All men therefore among themselves are by nature equal ; the inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law ...
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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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