Peter Winch and political authority

Philosophical Investigations

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-252

  Horton, John ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33846947211     PISSN: 01900536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9205.2005.00255.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Peter Winch, 'Authority', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 32, 1958-9
2. Richard E. Flathman, The Practice of Political Authority (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980)
3. E. D. Watt, Authority (London: Croom Helm, 1982)
4. Winch, Authority, p. 109
5. Peter Winch, 'Authority and Rationality', The Human World, 7, p. 11
6. See Robert Paul Wolf, In Defence of Anarchism (New York: Harper Row, 1970)
7. for a strong statement of this view. A more modest version is set out in A. J. Simmons, Moral Principles and Political Obligations (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979)
8. See, for instance, Joseph Tussman, Obligation and the Body Politic (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960)
9. For example, in Peter Winch,'Certainty and Authority', A. Phillips Griffiths (ed.), Wittgenstein Centenary Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) pp. 232-234
10. Peter Winch, 'How is Political Authority Possible?', Philosophical Investigations, 25, 2002, p. 26
11. See, for example, Tussman, Obligation and the Body Politic
12. The remark comes from his Of the Original Contract. See, David Hume, Essays. Moral, Political and Literary, (ed.) E. F. Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1987)
13. Winch, Certainty and Authority, p. 227
14. R. B. Friedman, 'On the Concept of Political Authority' in Joseph Raz (ed.), Authority (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990) pp. 79-80
15. See, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) Sect. 55
16. Winch, Authority and Rationality, p. 16
17. I have said a little more about this in John Horton, Political Obligation (London: Macmillan, 1992) pp. 152-4
18. A good example of this difficulty can be found in the writings of Proudhon. See, for example, P.-J. Proudhon, The Principle of Federation, trans. and intro. R. Vernon (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1979)
19. Winch, How is Political Authority Possible?, p. 32
20. Peter Winch, Trying to Make Sense (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987)