PHIL2634 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Charismatic Authority, Avocation, Traditional Authority
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What are the ways in which political power may be made legitimate? (compare. Three inner justifications, hence basic legitimations of domination. First, the authority of the "eternal yesterday," i. e. of the mores sanctified through the unimaginably ancient recognition and habitual orientation to conform. This is "traditional" domination exercised by the patriarch and the patrimonial prince of yore. There is the authority of the extraordinary and personal gift of grace (charisma), the absolutely personal devotion and personal confidence in revelation, heroism, or other qualities of individual leadership. Organized domination requires control of the personal executive staff and the material implements of administration. All states may be classified according to whether they rest on the principle that the staff of men themselves own the administrative means, or whether the staff is "separated" from these means of administration. The bureaucratic state order is especially important; m its most rational development, it is precisely characteristic of the modern state.
