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'The problem of parsing out the nature of political authority is an important and abiding one. Standard views try to square such authority, and the moral obligations that arise from it, with the demands of freedom and rationality or they express skepticism about such authority altogether. Allyn Fives boldly rejects both these notions, and in this meticulous and clearly written analysis, argues that authority can be legitimate but conflict with reasons grounded in rationality and freedom, giving rise to true moral dilemmas. This is a powerfully defended and perspicuously defended thesis, and one could not ask for a more thorough and careful examination of these issues.'
John Phillip Christman, Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
1 The problem of authority
2 Authority and authority scepticism
3 Joseph Raz's service conception of authority
4 Authority and moral dilemmas
5 Moral freedom and political freedom
6 Voluntarism
7 Membership and the communitarian thesis
8 On the plural grounds of authority
9 Problems some deliberative democrats have with authority
10 Reasons and norms
11 Soft authority