Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State

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Stanford University Press, 1991 - 168 síður
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is one of the works which dominate contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal "night-watchman" state and challenges the views of many contemporary philosophers, most notably John Rawls.

This book is the first full-length study of Nozick's work and of the debates to which it has given rise. Wolff situates Nozick's work in the context of current debates and examines the traditions which have influenced his thought. He then critically reconstructs the key arguments of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, focusing on Nozick's doctrine of rights, his derivation of the minimal state, and his Entitlement Theory of Justice. Wolff subjects Nozick's reasoning to rigorous scrutiny and argues that, despite the seductive simplicity of Nozick's libertarianism, it is, in the end, neither plausible nor wholly coherent. The book concludes by assessing Nozick's place in contemporary political philosophy.

 

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Nozicks Libertarianism 66
6
Libertarian Rights
16
Defending the Minimal State
36
Nozicks Invisible Hand
42
The Rational Acceptability of the State
52
Compelling the Anarchist
59
A Clash of Rights?
65
The Entitlement Theory of Justice
73
Two Conceptions of Liberty
93
Rejecting the Entitlement Conception?
99
The Lockean Proviso and the Nozickian Proviso
107
Justice in Rectification
115
Notes
143
Guide to Further Reading
153
Index
164
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