"Coercive power" refers to the ability of a person or entity to force someone to do something against their will by using threats, intimidation, or punishment. It involves exerting control or influence through fear or the expectation of negative consequences.
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Those with the fear - of - failure - syndrome firmly embedded in their brains (most newbies) are ripe for the infiltration of the use of
Coercive Power of Fear psychological tactics into their arsenals of influence, and that is not a good thing ORE..
On the other hand, if the answer is yes — that is, if divine persuasion alone does not maximize human freedom to the extent that such persuasion and divinely approved human coercion does — then it is difficult to see why the process God would not
use coercive power if this were an option.
Public authority power The fact that the claimants were acting as public authorities
exercising coercive powers of the state in carrying out its public function in respect of the centre did not per se put them outside the scope of RA 1886.
Due process and jury trial — threatened by cost; complexity; repeated attempts to reduce the number of jury trials; a succession of civil orders with effectively criminal sanctions; and proposals
for coercive powers under mental health legislation.
And what we've discovered is that when the choice is between more freedom for workers, more choice for parents and more tax dollars for vital services or, on the other side,
more coercive powers for a special interest — well, that isn't such a hard choice after all.
In their standard metaphysical discussions, process theists usually define
coercive power as the power to bring it about that another entity is totally devoid of any degree of self - determination.
If this is what process theists believe, then we might well expect them to criticize any use of
coercive power on the human level.
We never meant to be read as saying that the God of process theism would never use
coercive power if it were available, some might argue.
God in his working, and in his ways of working, is persuasive
not coercive power; he is that creative, dynamic, energizing love which was seen by men in the person of Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ's own working and ways of working.
There is some truth in Skinner's claim that certain humanists, in their resentment
against coercive power, have given their support to ineffective controls rather than to effective control for good.
Madden and Hare implicitly construe divine power to be coercive, limited by the exercise of other
coercive powers in the world.
That God's control is in fact limited by the existence of evil would signify a
limited coercive power, but it is compatible with unlimited persuasive power.
They acknowledge that there is an important nonpersuasive form of
coercive power which can unilaterally restrict or destroy the ability of individuals to act in accordance with their wishes.
In fact, it seems fair to say that the most common criticism process theists level against the God of classical free will theism is the claim that if such a being really existed and were wholly good, we should expect to see displays of
divine coercive power more often.
Even when they speak for themselves they implicate our collective
coercive power over the person.
Protection of EU citizens — menaced by member states» reluctance to grant enforceable rights to match
increased coercive powers.
In this set of
meanings coercive power is efficient causation, persuasive power is final causation, and freedom is realized conceptual innovation.
But if this is so, how can process theists still maintain that God would not use
coercive power even if it were available?
While the tribunal may use its
new coercive powers to make parties attend mediation and produce documents it can not force parties to mediate.
In effect Hare and Madden are saying that if there were a God of love, he would have to face up to the tragedy of the universe and would have to exert
responsible coercive power against certain aims and desires.
While Joe Volpe, the current federal immigration minister, has talked about encouraging more newcomers to settle in smaller centres, he lacks any
real coercive powers.
This differentiation between persuasive and
coercive power moves somewhat beyond the Old Testament context which rarely addresses itself to this particular contrast.
The model of divine
coercive power persisted so long primarily because God's activity is usually conceived in terms of efficient causality.
Most views of divine power are less extreme, but they all are the same basic defects insofar as they
ascribe coercive power to God.
Consider the extreme instance in which God is conceive» as exerting
unlimited coercive power, thereby controlling and determining all things.
Pure coercive power transforms creatio ex nihilo into creatio ex deo, with the world possessing no more independent actuality than an idea in the divine mind would have.
Even if a politically effective majority of citizens were Catholic, we should not want a confessional state if that means the Church, in its hierarchical self «definition, would be party to executing the
necessarily coercive power of the state.
In this
context coercive power is power which is not subject to morally responsible acceptance or rejection, and persuasive power is subject to morally responsible acceptance or rejection.
«The protection of lives and property of the citizens is the basis of any government in power and if the leadership has failed woefully to deploy the resources and information at its disposal to
enforce coercive power for the benefit of the society, then it had no reason to stay on,» he stated.
She says that although leaders might benefit from stressing their legitimate power, displays of anger could backfire as they cause subordinates to infer that their «boss» has
strong coercive power but weak referent power.
In many scenarios, the husband often has
extreme coercive power of the wife because he frequently controls the couple's finances.
In this paper I hope to clarify some important differences between persuasive power and
coercive power as encountered in our daily social experiences and then see how the differences apply in metaphysical discourse.
Now, in calling for
more coercive power, are Hare and Madden actually demanding that the deity frustrate more of the wants and desires of finite entities in order that certain goals may be attained?
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