Against Philosophical Anarchism

Law and Philosophy 39 (5):527-544 (2020)
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Philosophical anarchists claim that all states lack political authority and are illegitimate, but that some states are nevertheless morally justified and should not be abolished. I argue that philosophical anarchism is either incoherent or collapses into either statism or political anarchism.

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