Concept

Obedience

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yielding to instructions from an authority figure

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To some extent this is true; but the extent is much less than it is thought to be by those who regard obedience and discipline as in themselves desirable. Obedience, the yielding of one’s will to outside direction, is the counterpart of authority. Both may be necessary in certain cases. Refractory children, lunatics, and criminals may require authority, and may need to be forced to obey.
Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
Names Obedience several times; opens on Obedience.
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Besides, we must consider that, as obedience is our duty in the common course of things, it ought chiefly to be inculcated; nor can anything be more preposterous than an anxious care and solicitude in stating all the cases in which resistance may be allowed. Thus, though a philosopher reasonably acknowledges in the course of an argument that the rules of justice may be dispensed with in cases of urgent necessity…
David Hume, Hume's Political Discourses
The chapter “OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.” is titled for Obedience; states what Obedience is.
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Obeying God in him by our intention, obedience is easy. But when the text‐book theologians marshal collectively all their reasons for recommending it, the mixture sounds to our ears rather odd.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Names Obedience several times; states what Obedience is.
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