From: issachar@yabbs
To: Xela@yabbs
Subject: legitimacy
Date: Wed Apr 13 17:44:57 1994

well, i think that if you're going to talk about anarchy, you should go    
back to the writings of john stuart mill, thomas hobbes, aristotle, plato, 
and rousseau as to why governments are created in the first place and what 
the function of that gov't should be. 
also, doesn't the basic nature of human beings factor in here? i mean, are 
humans by nature good and moral? or is the state of nature one of war, as 
hobbes said? i think that the state of nature is an important thing you 
should talk about here, because the legitimacy of anarchist states rests 
on human behavior outside the bounds of gov't. see also, social contract.
my 2 philosophical cents,
iss