PHIL 320A Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Tyrant, Government Failure, Public Choice
30 Aug 2018
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I am inclined to think that rulers have rarely been above the average, either morally or intellectually, and often below it. There is also a kind of logical argument which can be used to show the inconsistency of any of the particular forms of the theory of sovereignty. Form of this logical argument is aimed against the paradox of freedom (majority rules by a tyrant) The theory i have in mind is one from the baseness of tyranny; or more precisely, it rests upon the decision, or upon the adoption of the proposal, to avoid and to resist tyranny. In favor of the type of government #2 the second type consists of governments which the ruled cannot get rid of except by way of a successful revolution that is to say, in most cases, not at all.
