PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mikhail Bakunin, Robert Paul Wolff

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1B03
• Professor: Grellette

Document Summary

So concerned with the safety of its citizens that it becomes a danger to them: bakunin and power. We are in fact the enemies of all power, knowing that power corrupts those invested with it just as much as those compelled to submit to it. The primary obligation of mans autonomy, the refusal to be rules. It would seem, then, that there can be no resolution of the conflict between the autonomy of the individual and the putative authority of the state. Insofar as a man fulfills his obligation to make himself the author of his decisions, he will resist the states claim to have authority over him