An analysis of the problem of Political Power - essee
An analysis of the problem of Political Power
Written by: Katre Kikkas
Introduction
It is said that in the political philosophy there are only two questions: ,,Who can have
what?" and ,,Who will decide over it?". It is not exactly like that but it is quite close to
the trough, to begin with. The first question includes material amenity's, and dividing
rights and liberties.(Wolff, 1996) What is power? It is ability to influence others to do
something they otherwise would not. Also, others can be affected with threats and force.
(Kilp, 2010) Political power includes also right to force the others and to punish them if
they disobey. Who should have that kind of power? Actually the political power is quite
mysterious by itself. If someone has legitimate political power over me then he or she has
a right to force me to do things that they want.(Wolff, 1996) But how can other person
have rig...
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