The Levellers’ Conception of Legitimate Authority

This article examines the Levellers’ doctrine of legitimate authority, by showing how it emerged as a critique of theories of absolute sovereignty. For the Levellers, any arbitrary power is tyrannical, insofar as it reduces human beings to an unnatural condition. Legitimate authority is necessarily...

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Main Author: Eunice Ostrensky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Sevilla 2018-01-01
Series:Araucaria
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Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28264625008
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