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but if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made, this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority, nor in the notion of authority over moral agents"
for my brand of anarchism this is no real objection at all because thats not the kind of claim against authority i make, but for philosophical anarchism (a la robert paul wolff) it is a more pressing issue. i think it probably doesn't take the deontic considerations clearly enough
on their own terms and would require more elaboration, but i'm not too bothered about it since its mostly in passing and furnishes his view nicely
"One also has to take notice of the disadvantages to one's life of too obsessive a preoccupation with questions of the precise limits of authority." WE LOVE A GRILL PILLED QUEEN
i think i might take break tonight heading into anti-perfectionism. i'm not at ease with the consent sections but i'm withholding judgement to see what he can do with his conception
the taken-for-granted patriarchy really gives the game away
enzo was right that legal scholars are putting up way more numbers than philosophers
dude i love that this feels like vibe-philosophizing but with rigor
like for most people there are like sacred things you HAVE to hold onto in order to make their shit work. but hes just like "yea im gonna adopt this principle and here are some reasons why i think it works, but whatever, if we disagree it's unlikely to affect the validity of the argument"
does it make sense to call this book dense but shallow? like we're doing a drive-by of the top concepts and hitting all the points, we're covering a lot of ground, but not developing much. which was intentional and stated up front, but i'm not sure how well it works overall
as in like, here are my stipulated definitions that hang together in a certain way but not going too extremely in depth on any of them. its not *that* far afield from similar works, just a little more intense in degree
i suppose i'd be less perturbed if i shared more of his intuitions
"every moral and every political theory which claims either that it is a complete theory, or even merely that it is complete regarding some issue, contains a principle of equality in this sense.
that is, it contains a closure principle stating that nothing else counts for the justification of moral or political action, or for action over education, etc. closure principles of this kind cannot therefore lend an egalitarian character to a theory."
its funny, as an anti-egalitarian i see the knots he's coming up against and have the impulse to take the exact opposite tack