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.

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Res Publica
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2026-09-01
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-026-09791-w
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Free Will and Agency
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Consent, Compensation, and Tyranny

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Consent, Compensation, and Tyranny

David P. O'Brien
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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.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
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