By Whose Authority: A Political Argument for God's Existence
In The Problem of Political Authority, Michael Huemer argues that the contractarian and consequentialist groundings of political authority are unsuccessful, and, in fact, that there are no adequate contemporary accounts of political authority. As such, the modern state is illegitimate and we have re...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2019]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wolterstorff, Nicholas 1932-
/ Authority
/ Politics
/ Existence of God
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| RelBib Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
Social Contract
B Calvin B Problem of Authority B Huemer |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (KW) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | In The Problem of Political Authority, Michael Huemer argues that the contractarian and consequentialist groundings of political authority are unsuccessful, and, in fact, that there are no adequate contemporary accounts of political authority. As such, the modern state is illegitimate and we have reasons to affirm political anarchism. We disagree with Huemer's conclusion. But we consider Huemer's critiques of contractarianism and consequentialism to be compelling. Here we will juxtapose, alongside Huemer's critiques, a theistic account of political authority from Nicholas Wolterstorff's book The Mighty and the Almighty. We think that Wolterstorff's model does better than contractarianism and consequentialism at answering Huemer's critiques. We also think that an abductive basis for God's existence emerges from the inadequate authority accounts that Huemer surveys. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v0i0.2545 |