However, if the subject of his authority arises, his face and his mood change.
When Thomas Hobbes claimed that in the state of nature, before authority arose to keep us in check, we were engaged in a war "of every man against every man", he could not have been more wrong.
He claims that the moral duty to obey the commands of legitimate authority arises only if additional conditions are met.
Most political theorists agreed with Thomas Aquinas in saying that a civil lord who supposed that his jurisdictive authority arose from property ownership rather than from a constitution would be a tyrant (Summa Theologiae IaIIae, Q.56, a.5; Q.58, a.2).
Dworkin argues that legitimate political authority arises as a consequence of the acquisition on the part of members of a political society of obligations to obey the rules of a genuine associative community.
However this dispute is resolved, questions of trust and authority arise in a particularly pointed way in the sciences, and Hardwig's dilemma for the physics experiment is also a specific version of a more general phenomenon.
Apparent authority arises when a reasonable person exercising due diligence would think that agency status was present.
The "dirt gold mafia," as it is sometimes referred to by authorities, arose from a 2006 Iranian law adopting the international packaging designation PET, or polyethylene terephthalate.
Her grievance with authorities arises from the perceived inaction of the Australian Defence Force in responding to allegations she was raped during the 12 years in which she was employed by the ADF, the court heard.
His difficulties with church authorities arose principally from his attributing to God a role in the existence of evil and suffering, citing that, even if God is said only to permit evil, he in effect causes it.
