Authority in Leadership

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Generally the concept of leadership in a society is thought as being a man who is above the other people

and also more powerful than them. Also society thinks that he must be so unsensitive and show his

power to prove that he can be a great leader.However,have you ever asked what the great leader is and

why the concept of power and leading are generally regarded as being above the others by showing

your power agent of strong rhetoric based on authority and violence? This is an idealized type of

leadership for general people and they think leaders should speak decisively and this exactness

must be linked to authority and the desire for controlling the people.I claim the opposite situation is

true I think that the most important trait of a leader should be not to have authority, because authority

is so harmful that it can abolish the virtues and morality in societies.

There are many opposite views for my assertion but only several of them are strong.First claim is that

you can’t think of helping others in regular way if there is no authoritarian leader because human

nature is self centered so whenever the authority of a leader weakens it is possible that a country and

nation can come to an end because authoritarian leader is a need to regulate everything in a country

and keep people from poverty .This opinion is not correct because it is wrong to think that people

should be regulated by a leader even by govermental laws.Philosopher Karl Marx says that it is

unscientific to create a concept of specific human nature(the sixth thesis on Feuerbach,1888)I agree

with him. It is incorrect to say that the society must be regulated because human nature is selfish.On the

other hand the concept of ...

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... realize that there is no leader that strictly

governs the birds, swans or trees. They are all happy in their own nature. We should think societies

like that.It is good when there are many ideas and differences between people instead of one strict idea.

There shouldn’t be a man that strictly gives orders to people and leads society think that power,

rightness and authority are combined things .Authority is not related to power and rightness. It is the

absence of power because it is the absence of real energy of life based on happiness and love.

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REFERENCES

Gustainis J.(n.d.).Autocratic Leadership(n.d.)from http://www.ou.edu/ap/grad5990/el/autocratic1pdf

Dwyer,Maruyama,Fontaine(2011,November 30)Philosophy of Education for 21st century:The projects of Heidegger and Wittengstein. Retrieved(2011,March 4)from:https://repositorio.uam.es/pdf

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