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Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World

By Arthur Isak Applbaum

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780674241923
DOI
10.4159/9780674241923
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4466569 bytes)
Pages
240\304
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 09:37:01

Description

What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.

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