How is political authority possible?

Philosophical Investigations

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 20-32

  Winch, Peter ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33645292141     PISSN: 01900536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9205.00157     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. The Second Treatise of Government, New York, The Liberal Arts Press 1952, pp. 34-35
2. Leviathan, Part II, Chapter XXV. 1988, by the way, is the four hundredth anniversary of Hobbes' birth (Presumably, the date of Winch's paper - Ed.)
3. On such questions see Simone Weil, 'The Legitimacy of the Provisional Government' in Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1987; and many other places in her writings
4. David Hume, 'Of the Original Contract' in his Political Essays, ed. Charles W. Hendel, The Library of Liberal Arts 1953, pp. 43-63. This essay seems to me one of Hume's very best works
5. Political Essays, ed. Charles W. Hendel, Bobbs-Merrill, The Library of Liberal Arts, 1953, pp. 24-27
6. Locke does speak of the duty of parents to 'inform' their immature off-spring. But he is in no position to recognize the importance of training in what Professor Anscombe felicitously calls 'the practices of reason'. See G.E.M. Anscombe, Collected Philosophical Papers, Vol. Ill, Basil Blackwell 1981
7. On this topic see too the important essay, 'Epistemology and Education' in Against Empiricism by R.F. Holland (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980)