Essay Archive - The Right of Autonomy
The Right of Autonomy
Political philosophy is the philosophy of the state. A state is a
group of people who have supreme authority within a given territory or over a
certain population, according to Wolf. Authority then, is the right to command
and the right to be obeyed which is different from power. Power in Wolff's terms,
is the “ability to compel compliance.” Moral autonomy is “a submission to laws
which one has made for oneself.” Wolf believes that there is a problem between
authority and autonomy. Autonomy overrides the importance of authority. He
also thinks that classical democracy fails to be a solution to this problem.
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