POLIS

I now have a deeper reflection on the "first political question" raised by Williams. I want to explore further the two levels of the legitimacy dimension of power:

  1. The normativity of the practice of power

    • Moral normativity
    • Epistemic normativity
  2. Legitimacy beyond particular exercises of power

    • Moral legitimacy
    • Epistemic legitimacy

This distinction reveals that the legitimacy of power involves both normative requirements at the level of practice, and a meta-normative dimension for judging the legitimacy of power itself.