The Problem of Obedience, Revisited - by Dennis Bouvard
For some, the question, “why obey,” is the political question, and while that’s a liberal framing of the political, predicated upon an anarchist anthropology, the question must still be addressed.
For some, the question, “why obey,” is the political question, and while that’s a liberal framing of the political, predicated upon an anarchist anthropology, the question must still be addressed. It would be easy to flip the question around, starting from the presumption of obedience to authority, rather than an eternal pre-political decision whether or not to enter the social contract made in each instant, and then ask, what do you want to disobey and why? This extracts the metaphysics from the question of obedience. I got tripped up a bit myself on this issue when I was still working…
related reading
- washingtonpost.com: Unabomber Special Reportwashingtonpost.com
- Do not conquer what you cannot defend — LessWronglesswrong.com
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedienceibiblio.org
- Mill, On Liberty.pdfeet.pixel-online.org
- Leviathan | Project Gutenberggutenberg.org
- Introduction to Center Study | Center Study Centercenter.study
- On Authoritymarxists.org
- Tokenizing Successiondennisbouvard.substack.com
- The Project Gutenberg eBook of On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreaugutenberg.org
- Individual Sovereignty | the singularity is nearergeohot.github.io
- Submission, Sympathy, Sovereignty | Network Statethenetworkstate.com
- The Theseus Ship Anti-Revolutiondennisbouvard.substack.com