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Routledge: Philosophy for a Level: Authority and Legitimacy [Pdf]

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Explains the distinctions between power, authority, and legitimacy. It then looks at the relationship of legitimacy to a government, what obligations people have to obey a government, and what Plato's thinking was on this subject. The last section looks at views on the rationality of submission to authority.

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legitimacy of government, political power, plato and authority, routledge: philosophy for a level: authority and legitimacy, practical authority, submitting to authority, theoretical authority
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