[DOWNLOAD] "Civilizing Authority" by Patrick Mckinley Brennan * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Civilizing Authority
- Author : Patrick Mckinley Brennan
- Release Date : January 05, 2007
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1026 KB
Description
Voices of Enlightenment have long counseled modern men and women to flee authority, including authority claimed by the church. Aspiring to substitute rock-ribbed law for human, or even divine, authority, today's legal minds pursue a "rule of law, not of men." Any possibility of authority is almost everywhere assimilated to the threat of authoritarian abuse. Civilizing Authority counters the flight from authority with the claim that it is precisely authority itself that offers a barrier against authoritarian