The Problem of Political Authority
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Our guest to day is michael humor, professor of philosophy at the university of colorado at boulder. He's an author of two thousand 13, the problem of political authority. The poem asks: Why is it that we are obligated to obey the government when they make laws? And what entitles the state to coerce other people to obey them where it would not be permissible for any one else to use coercion in similar circumstances?
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