Autoridad y legitimación: de vuelta al anarquismo

“Authority and Legitimacy: Coming Back to Anarchism”. This article proposes to reconsider, within the frame of Political Philosophy, the traditional approach to the problem of the moral duty to obey the State. The relevance of some objections coming from philosophical anarchism against this moral du...

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Author: Hernández-Zambrano, David
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2019
Country:Perú
Institution:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repository:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20996
Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/20996
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Authority
legitimacy
philosophical anarchism
obedience
ethics
Autoridad
legitimidad
anarquismo filosófico
obediencia
ética
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Summary:“Authority and Legitimacy: Coming Back to Anarchism”. This article proposes to reconsider, within the frame of Political Philosophy, the traditional approach to the problem of the moral duty to obey the State. The relevance of some objections coming from philosophical anarchism against this moral duty is stated, by taking some of the criticisms from R.P. Wolff and J.A. Simmons, two of the most important figures in this philosophical branch in recent times, as a departure point. Along these lines, the inexistence of that moral duty is defended and the article advocates for a critic stand towards authority without arriving at the conclusion of political anarchism, which claims that there is an obligation to abolish or fight political authority. We suggest that the question for the legitimacy of the State can only be approached by means of casuistry, from an applied ethics analysis of different impositions from authority.