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Michael Huemer, “The Problem of Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

New Books in Philosophy

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Psychology of Authority and Obedience

Exploring the psychology of authority, the chapter delves into the debunking of intuitions about governmental authority by discussing phenomena like the Stockholm Syndrome and Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedience to authority figures.

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