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Is Political Authority an Illusion? A Debate: Michael Huemer and Daniel Layman

Michael Huemer and Daniel Layman discuss their co-authored debate book on political authority: https://www.routledge.com/Is-Politica... It's part of the Little Debates About Big Questions series, which I co-edit with Tyron Goldschmidt: https://www.routledge.com/Little-Deba... Political authority is the supposed thing possessed by the government which makes it the case that (i) you have an obligation to obey the government's laws, and (ii) the government has a right to coerce you into obeying its laws. Roughly: Huemer thinks the burden of proof is on the person who believes in political authority, since it posits that governments are morally different from all other actors. And he thinks all attempts to meet this burden of proof fail, which leads him ultimately to endorse a form of anarchism. Meanwhile, Layman thinks political authority is possessed by democratically accountable states because, he thinks, they are the only entities capable of sufficiently safeguarding our fundamental rights. My website: dustincrummett.com Twitter:   / dustin_crummett   Patreon: patreon.com/dustincrummett Paypal: https://paypal.me/dustincrummett?coun...