Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced GuideAnarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick’s highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism—considered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century.
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Contents
The Experience Machine | |
Why State of Nature Theory? | |
The Invisible Hand and the Justification of the State | |
What Is the Argument so far Supposed to Show? | |
General Outlines of the Argument | |
Dividing the Benefits of Exchange | |
The Monopoly of Force | |
Protecting Everyone | |
Defining the State | |
How the State Functions | |
Is the DPAs Failure to Claim Legitimacy a Deficiency? | |
Distributive Justice 1 Some Terminology and Basic Concepts | |
The Entitlement View | |
A Taxonomy of Principles | |
Fear and Victim Compensation | |
The Risk Argument | |
Preemptive Attack | |
Procedural Rights | |
The Principle of Compensation | |
Unproductive Exchange and Explaining Why Blackmail Is Wrong | |
Assessing the Unproductive Exchange Argument | |
Conclusion | |
Has the Dominant Protective Association Become a State? 1 What Does the Argument Prove if Successful? | |
The Adventures of Wilt Chamberlain | |
Assessing Nozicks Arguments | |
The Problem | |
A Possible Solution | |
The Proviso | |
Where is the Baseline? | |
Why this Proviso? | |
The Search for Utopia | |
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