Consent, Custom, and the Common Good in Aquinas's Account of Political Authority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6402840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael C Murphy (0000-0002-9433-5105, corresponding author), Mark C Murphy (0000-0002-5388-4079) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 323-350 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500026656 |
| OpenAlex | W2155704106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 7 |
According to Aquinas's view, while the mandate that political authority be instituted and exercised is an immediate consequence of the natural law precept that the common good be promoted, the question of who possesses political authority is settled by customary law. Samuel Beer's rival interpretation, one of the few attempts to discern Aquinas's view on political authority, is incompatible with Aquinas's explicit remarks on these matters. The present account provides an interpretation that both fits Aquinas's few explicit remarks about the source and form of political authority and explains the terseness of his remarks on that subject
Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Law and economics · Mandate · Natural (archaeology · Political authority · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Precept · Primary authority · Sociology · Subject (documents · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · History · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |