The dilemma of authority

The dilemma of authorityThe moral problem of authority is the challenge of reconciling legitimate authority (the right to rule) with the demands of freedom and rationality. In this book, it is argued that authority can have legitimacy, but when it does it generates a moral dilemma, where the obligation to obey comes at some cost to freedom and reason.

This collection catalogues the ways in which scholars and activists experience and resist this expectation

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brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics

In addition to ecological and agriculture factors

By grouping the chapters into theory

Focusing on Britain and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century

and geopolitical relations across different scales

there are few anthologies tackling the subject

about media and its place in the world

It will be of interest to students of English literature and cultural history

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It contains a peer-reviewed selection of the best articles presented at the 2009 Tenth Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming held in Komárno