Other state justification theories

Other state justification theories

Chapter 13 — State justification • Paragraph 5 • §13.00.05.00

The above two theories have been the dominant state justification theories throughout human recorded history. Other alternatives have emerged from time to time: while they have never excluded the idea of ‘agreement’, and thus of the artificiality of the state, they have all approached it from different angles (rather than the purely contractarian). At any event, all of them have been heavily criticised and none have won widespread acceptance—outside, that is, a larger or smaller circle of people who found them useful for their political agendas of utilitarianism, idealism, and Marxism.

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