Open AccessIntroduction: Justice, Legitimacy, And Secession
Author(s) -
Sergi MoralesGálvez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
las torres de lucca
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 2255-3827
DOI - 10.5209/tolu.74905
Subject(s) - legitimacy , politics , secession , economic justice , government (linguistics) , political science , space (punctuation) , precondition , sociology , law , law and economics , political economy , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language
Politics is about managing conflict, about how we should live together (Arendt, 2015, p. 131). Many traditions of thought and political thinkers have nonetheless taken this shared space of conflict, this we the people, as a given. The people is considered as a necessary precondition for politics. What happens when a part of this we disagrees with that? When, for some, this shared community is not taken as a given and claim their right to secede and build their own independent political community. Such claims bear on the fundamental questions: who is the “demos”? who are the people entitled to self-government?’