Winch on Political Authority & Obedience

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40742-1_7" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-40742-1_7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Winch on Political Authority & Obedience

Original language description

The article considers Peter Winch’s novel criticism of Contractarianism in his 1990 “Certainty and Authority”, which links Hume’s criticism with arguments from Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. Using Wittgenstein he questions the desire-belief conception of action, and the view that all reasonable action, and thus also obedience, is based on justified belief. Winch argues instead that rationality is itself based on primitive and habitual trust – and thus also obedience – of authority. Rationality thus does not ground action but, being integral to the practices of the community, is presupposed by any reasonable decision and action. Against this I argue that primitive reaction and habit cannot make sense of obligation, including that of political obedience, because it ignores its conceptual and free character, furthermore that the genealogical and linear account cannot deal with political authority understood as rule of law, since the latter is itself in an essential part the product of theoretical, indeed philosophical, reasoning.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch

ISBN

978-3-030-40741-4

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

103-115

Number of pages of the book

286

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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