Raz's service conception holds that authority is legitimate only when subjects better conform to pre-existing reasons by following it, not merely because it specifies moral principles.

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Pre-existing reasons(what the statement says authority should help people follow): Moral truths or facts about what's right that already exist independently, before any authority figure tells you about them.
Raz (Joseph Raz)(The statement references his specific theory about authority): A influential philosopher who studied how authority works and when it's legitimate for someone or an institution to have power over us.
legitimate authority(Normative theory of authority): A kind of entity capable of fulfilling a mediating role in practical reasoning, whose directives replace certain first-order reasons for action.
moral principles(Used to explain how moral judgement is epistemologically possible.): Regularities connecting the non-moral features of actions to their moral properties (rightness or wrongness).

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