Concept
Authoritarianism
Overview
form of social organization characterized by submission to authority
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Authoritarianism
- William Godwin
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Karl Popper
- Max Horkheimer
- Marshall McLuhan
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Philip K. Dick
- John Anderson (philosopher)
- Julius Evola
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Carl Schmitt
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Peter Kropotkin
- Paulo Freire
- Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
- Nicos Poulantzas
- George Molnar (philosopher)
Related ideas
- One-party state
- Executive (government)
- Freedom of the press
- The End of History and the Last Man
- Vladimir Lenin
- Fascism
- Political freedom
- French Revolution
- Francis Fukuyama
- BBC News
- Germany
- Greece
- Gross domestic product
- Hungary
- Human rights
- Individualism
- Individual and group rights
- Kuomintang
- Authority
- South Africa
- Libya
- Empire of Japan
- Latin America
- Ethiopia
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Absolute monarchy
- Amartya Sen
- Argentina
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Autocracy
- Bahrain
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Charisma
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Chinese Communist Party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Democracy
- Dictator
- Eastern Bloc
- Empire of Japan
- Fake news
- Francis Fukuyama
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of the press
- Gross domestic product
- Hannah Arendt
- Hungary
- Individual and group rights