Political philosophy is the philosophy of the state. A state is a group of people who have supreme authority within a given territory or over a certain population, according to Wolf. Authority then, is the right to command and the right to be obeyed which is different from power. Power in Wolff's terms, is the "ability to compel compliance." Moral autonomy is "a submission to laws which one has made for oneself." Wolf believes that …showed first 75 words of 498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 498 total…to autonomy. If a man fulfills his obligation to autonomy, then he will reject the authority of the state, resulting in philosophical anarchy. Democracy seemed to be a solution to this problem, but Wolf quickly showed how it failed. Democracy took away the autonomy of the minority. He states, "If democracy is to make good its title as the only morally legitimate form of politics, then it must solve the problem of the heteronomous minority."