权威普遍存在于人类社会。它是在人类相互依赖的联合活动中产生的,因为任何联合活动都需要组织,而没有权威就无法组织起来。随着生产和流通手段的日益现代化,联合活动的过程日益复杂化,这种权威的范围也必然日益趋向于扩大。因社会领域之不同,权威则呈现多种形式:政治权威、经济权威、军事权威,法律权威、学术权威,技术权威等,本文主要讨论的则是带有综合性的领导权威。那么,什么是权威呢?恩格斯说过:“这里所说的权威,是指把别人的意志强加于我们;另一方面,权威又是以服从为前提的,”(《马克思恩格斯 Authority is widespread in human society. It arises in joint activities of human interdependence, because any joint activity requires organization, which can not be organized without authority. With the increasingly modern means of production and circulation, the process of joint activities is increasingly complicated, and the scope of such authority is bound to increasingly tend to expand. Due to the different social fields, the authority presents various forms: political authority, economic authority, military authority, legal authority, academic authority, technical authority, etc. This article mainly discusses with comprehensive leadership authority. So what is authority? Engels said: “The authority here refers to the imposition of the will of others on us; on the other hand, authority is subject to obedience,” (Marx and Engels