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The recognition in authority: roles, relations, and reasons

SSRN Electronic Journal
2022
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    271
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      210
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      61
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    1
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      1
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        1
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      725,419

Article Description

How could one person justifiably create reasons for another? This article reissues this familiar 'standing' objection to authority, to demonstrate the structural contribution of recognition to both the idea of authority and its justification. Drawing upon theories of recognition of reasons and persons, it argues that authority must be robustly recognised, not merely identified, by both its subjects and its claimants. Such recognition operates in either roles or relations of authority to make a subject's relevant reasons for action an authority's business. By transmitting reasons between persons on both sides of roles or relations, recognition does the connective work that is necessary to distinguish the idea of authority from other concepts of control, while structuring its justification to require both standing between persons and standards in accordance with reasons. Without the connection between persons and transmission of reasons that comes through robust recognition, one's power over another is both claimed and received not as authority, but as coercion or persuasion; the claim itself entails meddling with (rather than serving) subjects.

Bibliographic Details

Nicole Roughan

Elsevier BV

Authority; recognition; standing; reasons; roles; Raz; Darwall; Enoch; normativity; sociality

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