Petr G. Shchedrovitsky. (№ 402795)

Addressing the clarification of the phenomenon of authority, A. Kojève distinguishes between political tyranny and despotism. Tyranny and Wisdom (1950) analyzes the secret desire of the tyrant (and of any politician) to direct a person's choice through the organization of "obedience without coercion." Submission to a politician is all the more connected with "authority", the less the authorities resort to pure violent power (including the threat thereof). In other words, the politician seeks recognition from equals - insofar as the alleged "equality" does not turn into a threat to his very power. Since a politician (as a politician) is driven by the desire for recognition, and the value of recognition is directly proportional to the degree of his inherent "voluntariness", the ideal to which a politician aspires is defined by "universal recognition" in its form. Thus, the “reasonable tyrant” seeks to abolish tyranny, to the extent that this abolition is not utopian at the present moment in time, as well as to build an effective network of social communication that eliminates the excessive use of force.