What does authority mean today?

Polish Federation website Le Droit Humain, 28 June 2023

The word “authority” comes from Latin auctoritas. In ancient Rome, it meant the general respect that society had for a peculiar person, not necessarily in a political context. Auctoritas they had people of outstanding force of force, who were able to exert a crucial influence on others and to pull them to support their will. Intuitively, it is worth to point out the meaning of this word close to the concept of charisma as a squad of peculiar features, thanks to which the individual possessing it can enjoy unquestionable authority in people and the anticipation of influencing them.

However, let us return to ancient Rome for a minute and note 1 more thing, this time the purely political meaning of the word auctoritas – it was besides a concept related to organization authority. Auctoritas He possessed the Roman senate, and it was not a feature of his power understood as the ability to accomplish his will, for so understood authority belonged to the people, but to this peculiar competence, by which the will of the ruling people was formally legalized, taking the form of a law. Of the difference between auctoritas and the authorities said to Cicero, “Cum potestas in populo, auctoritas in legislature sit”, that is, “Although the people have power, authority rests in the senate.” Auctoritas The legislature was so its competence to legally authorize the power of the sovereign people. Today, there are inactive expressions specified as “the majesty of the law” or “the seriousness of the office”. Majesty is simply a word referring to the dignity and seriousness of the thing that possesses it.

W Iliad and Odyssey For the first time, individual patterns that not only shaped the life of the erstwhile society and were based on the elite ethics of knighthood or, more broadly, the ethics of honor, have had a immense impact on the full European culture, including the formation of individual individuals who have legitimized and were for many the personification of authority. For these reasons, Homer can besides be regarded as a educator of a socially defined group of people ( aristocrats or knights), a co-founder of European culture in general, a co-creator of universal moral patterns including individuals claiming to be authorities. The characters behind the patterns are besides available in...

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