AUTHORITY is a constant and pervasive phenomenon in the history of religions. One often speaks of traditional authority, scriptural authority, ecclesiastical authority, or imperial authority based on religious claims. As legitimate power to require and...

Authority Three topics have dominated philosophical discussion of authority: the nature of authority, the point of authority, and the sources of authority. The Nature of Authority In providing an account of the nature of authority, the focus in this...

Six distinctions must be drawn in any account of the concept of authority (Friedman 1973; Lukes 1978; Raz 1989). First, the failure to explain the unity and order of social life and the compliance of subjects solely in terms of coercion and/or rational...

Authority means the right to give an order, which will be obeyed with no question as to that right, or, if not an order, the right to evoke legitimate power in support of a decision. Thus someone may have the authority to instruct soldiers to fire on a...

(1) There is no ‘authority’ in Bsm. in the sense of one who gives forth doctrine which must be accepted, or who gives authoritative explanation of doctrine. Each Buddhist is his own authority, in the sense that he must learn the Truth for...

A form of legitimized power. 1. Power is legitimized by virtue of the position the individual holds, eg teachers’ power is legitimized in as much as they are employees of an educational institution; the teacher is in authority. 2. Teachers’...

Authority does not depend on age. (African) He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost. (Italian) He who has no bread has no authority....

In politics, authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas and imperium) is often used interchangeably with the term "power". However, their meanings differ: while "power" refers to the ability to achieve certain ends,...