Arthur Isak Applbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Isak Applbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur Isak |
| FAMILY NAME | Applbaum |
| SIGNATURE | APPLBAUM A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1912-4399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Legitimacy
What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others
The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine
Legitimate authority is the normative power to govern, where a normative power is the ability to change the normative situation of others. Correlatively, when one has the normative power to govern others, these others face a normative liability to be governed. So understood, physicians do not have legitimate authority over their patients, and patients do not have legitimate authority over their physicians. An authority is legitimate only when it …
Legitimacy without the Duty to Obey
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account. The view claims that political legitimacy is a form of normative power that entails moral liability, but not necessarily a moral claim-right that entails moral duty. The power-liability account supports appealing interpretations of justified civil disobedience in the face of legitimate but unjust law at home and of justified human r…
Forcing a People to Be Free
Is forcing a people to be free possible, and if so, is it ever morally permissible? The question cries out for clarification: What is it to be a people? What is it for a people to be forced? And what is it for a people to be free? As with so many questions in political philosophy, the hardest task here is to ask the right one, so I will spend most of my time specifying and clarifying what I am asking. When the question is well posed, it will almo…
Ethics for Adversaries
Ethics for adversaries
Ethics for Adversaries is a philosophical inquiry into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful actions performed by those who occupy what Montaigne called "necessary offices.". Applbaum begins by examining the career of Charles-Henri Sanson, who is appointed executioner of Paris by Louis XVI and serves the punitive needs of the ancien regime for decades. Come the French Revolution, the King's Executioner becomes the king's executi…
Are Violations of Rights Ever Right?
Professional Detachment
Saviours of the homeland, hereafter do not make such a hasty end of criminals who fall into your clutches. Put it to those extreme patriots of excess that it is no service to their fellow citizens to eradicate, by their slapdash zeal, the only way to come at the root of the catastrophes that were then being prepared. Put it to them that they owe me compensation for the executions of which they have deprived me. Each of the heads of the four scoun…
Books in Review
The Remains of the Role
Legitimacy without the Duty to Obey
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account. The view claims that political legitimacy is a form of normative power that entails moral liability, but not necessarily a moral claim-right that entails moral duty. The power-liability account supports appealing interpretations of justified civil disobedience in the face of legitimate but unjust law at home and of justified human r…
Forcing a People to Be Free
Is forcing a people to be free possible, and if so, is it ever morally permissible? The question cries out for clarification: What is it to be a people? What is it for a people to be forced? And what is it for a people to be free? As with so many questions in political philosophy, the hardest task here is to ask the right one, so I will spend most of my time specifying and clarifying what I am asking. When the question is well posed, it will almo…
The Remains of the Role
The Remains of the Role
Books in Review
Professional Detachment
Saviours of the homeland, hereafter do not make such a hasty end of criminals who fall into your clutches. Put it to those extreme patriots of excess that it is no service to their fellow citizens to eradicate, by their slapdash zeal, the only way to come at the root of the catastrophes that were then being prepared. Put it to them that they owe me compensation for the executions of which they have deprived me. Each of the heads of the four scoun…
Are Violations of Rights Ever Right?
Ethics for adversaries
Ethics for Adversaries is a philosophical inquiry into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful actions performed by those who occupy what Montaigne called "necessary offices.". Applbaum begins by examining the career of Charles-Henri Sanson, who is appointed executioner of Paris by Louis XVI and serves the punitive needs of the ancien regime for decades. Come the French Revolution, the King's Executioner becomes the king's executi…
Ethics for Adversaries
Forcing a People to Be Free
Is forcing a people to be free possible, and if so, is it ever morally permissible? The question cries out for clarification: What is it to be a people? What is it for a people to be forced? And what is it for a people to be free? As with so many questions in political philosophy, the hardest task here is to ask the right one, so I will spend most of my time specifying and clarifying what I am asking. When the question is well posed, it will almo…
Legitimacy without the Duty to Obey
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account. The view claims that political legitimacy is a form of normative power that entails moral liability, but not necessarily a moral claim-right that entails moral duty. The power-liability account supports appealing interpretations of justified civil disobedience in the face of legitimate but unjust law at home and of justified human r…
The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine
Legitimate authority is the normative power to govern, where a normative power is the ability to change the normative situation of others. Correlatively, when one has the normative power to govern others, these others face a normative liability to be governed. So understood, physicians do not have legitimate authority over their patients, and patients do not have legitimate authority over their physicians. An authority is legitimate only when it …
Legitimacy
What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others
Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Adversary system (Law) (2 works) · Ethics (2 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (2 works)