Introduction to Philosophy: Overhead

Introduction to Philosophy	Notes	*This is not a substitute for coming to class - or for reading* the material.**	Richard Lee
Philosophy 2003 C 001	Notes	Copyright © 2002, Richard Lee	Autumn 2002

Wolff: Some Distinctions

Authority = the right to be obeyed (P 446b) vs. power
normative sense (P 447a) vs. descriptive sense
authoritative command vs. persuasive argument (P 447a)
"Obedience ... is a matter of doing what [someone] tells you to do because he tells you to do it." (P 447b) vs. compliance (P 448b)
de jure state vs. de facto state (P 447b)
Autonomy = subjecting one's will to laws that one has given oneself; not subjecting one's will to laws not given oneself. (Cf. P 448b) vs. heteronomy

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Authority = the right to be obeyed (P 446b)	vs. power
normative sense (P 447a)	vs. descriptive sense
authoritative command	vs. persuasive argument (P 447a)
"Obedience ... is a matter of doing what [someone] tells you to do because he tells you to do it." (P 447b)	vs. compliance (P 448b)
de jure state	vs. de facto state (P 447b)
Autonomy = subjecting one's will to laws that one has given oneself; not subjecting one's will to laws not given oneself. (Cf. P 448b)	vs. heteronomy