Antigone: Political Authority

Political power results from the fear of force. The individual acts out of a fear of consequences of disobedience and in accordance with the desdire for self-preservation. Political Authority results from a belief in the moral correctness of the organization in question. The individual acts of a sense of obligation and acknowledges the right of the ruler, morally, to rule and the moral correctness of the laws are accepted. The laws are obeyed for their …

…and prosper, it must stifle individual humans in their pursuit of knowledge. Since Socrates, a just man, merely pursuing the path of knowledge and wisdom, must be executed to ensure political community's stability, the community need act unjustly to preserve itself and thereby can have no moral authority. Ultimately, the suggestion is, as in Antigone, that political authority does not exist. The implication is that political communities thereby, rule by powers of fear and force.