Consent, Compensation, and Tyranny
Abstract In his Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny , Jesse Spafford offers an extended argument for social anarchism. Spafford’s moral tyranny constraint plays a key role in that extended argument. Spafford’s moral tyranny constraint is proposed and defended as a general constraint on the acceptability of a moral theory. In this symposium contribution, I express some reservations about Spafford’s moral tyranny constraint.
Authors
- David P. O'Brien (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7339-2346)
Institutions
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Res Publica
- Published
- 2026-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-026-09791-w
- Primary Topic
- Free Will and Agency
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00