Ep. #13 - The State as a Force Monopolizer
Egg Timer Philosophy
English - September 09, 2020 16:17 - 10 minutes - 9.27 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 12: Pascal's Wager
Next Episode: 14: Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: Part 1
How should we define the state? On this episode of the egg timer we explore Max Weber's influential attempt to answer this question with the idea that the state is a political association that monopolizes the use of force over a specific territory.
Image Attribution: Joseph A. Lambach, U.S. Marine Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons