Political Authority And Obligation In

It is commonly held that Aristotle's views on politics have little relevance to the preoccupations of modern political theory with authority and obligation. Andres Rosler's original study argues that, on the contrary, Aristotle does examine the question of political obligation and its limits, and that contemporary political theorists have much to learn from him. Rosler takes his exploration further, considering the ethical underpinning of Aristotle's political thought, the normativity of his ethical and political theory, and the concepts of political authority and obligation themselves.

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Introduction

1

(10)

1. The Explanatory Power of Ethics in Aristotle's Theory of Politics and Law

11

(31)

1.1 Rulers, Subjects, and the Practical Viewpoint

11

(8)

1.2 Description and Evaluation in Social Science

19

(14)

1.3 Complementarity of Description and Evaluation: Social Science and Moral Agency

33

(9)

2. Nature and Normativity

42

(45)

2.1 Nature in Ethics and Politics

42

(3)

2.2 Mind the Gap

45

(8)

2.3 The Human Thing to Do

53

(14)

2.4 Political Animals

67

(6)

2.5 It's Only Natural

73

(7)

2.6 Getting Aristotle's Priorities Right

80

(7)

3. The Concept of Political Authority

87

(29)

3.1 Introduction

87

(1)

3.2 Words Can't Describe

88

(2)

3.3 The Nature of Authority

90

(11)

3.4 Political Authority in the Ethics and Politics

101

(11)

3.5 Ways of Speaking about 'Authority' in the Politics

112

(4)

4. Morality and Political Obligation

116

(29)

4.1 Introduction

116

(1)

4.2 Morality in Aristotle?

116

(17)

4.3 'Moral Ought' in the Ethics

133

(3)

4.4 The Concept of Political Obligation

136

(4)

4.5 Political Allegiance: Obligation or Duty?

140

(5)

5. The Question of Political Obligation

145

(33)

5.1 Popping the Question

145

(5)

5.2 The Extreme Democratic Challenge

150

(17)

5.3 Some Communitarian Fallacies

167

(11)

6. The Justification of Political Authority

178

(41)

6.1 For Your Own Good: Two First Arguments

178

(8)

6.2 Enabling Constraint and Coordination

186

(7)

6.3 Et in Arcadia auctoritas?

193

(26)

7. The Limits of Political Obligation

219

(40)

7.1 Breadth and Depth of the Political Question

219

(3)

7.2 You Belong to Me

222

(11)

7.3 Eunomia and 'Constitutional' Vice

233

(6)

7.4 Tyranny and the Right of Resistance

239

(20)

Conclusion

259

(2)

Bibliography

261

(14)

Index Locorum

275

(13)

Index Nominum

288

(4)

General Index

292

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