Anarchy, State, and UtopiaWinner of the 1975 National Book Award, this brilliant and widely acclaimed book is a powerful philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age--liberal, socialist, and conservative. |
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User Review - Paul_S - LibraryThingVery thoroughly elucidates the internal contradictions and general impossibility of anarchy and libertarianism. The style is atrocious and the structure very meandering but its still worth suffering through the waffling. Read full review
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User Review - drbrand - LibraryThingThe minimal state treats us as inviolate individuals, who may not be used in certain ways by others as means or tools or instruments or resources; it treats us as persons having individual rights with ... Read full review
Contents
Why StateofNature Theory ? | 3 |
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | 4 |
EXPLANATORY POLITICAL THEORY | 6 |
The State of Nature | 10 |
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIONS | 12 |
THE DOMINANT PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION | 15 |
INVISIBLEHAND EXPLANATIONS | 18 |
IS THE DOMINANT PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION A STATE? | 22 |
PATTERNING | 155 |
HOW LIBERTY UPSETS PATTERNS | 160 |
SENS ARGUMENT | 164 |
REDISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTY RIGHTS | 167 |
LOCKES THEORY OF ACQUISITION | 174 |
THE PROVISO | 178 |
TERMS OF COOPERATION AND THE DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE | 189 |
THE ORIGINAL POSITION AND ENDRESULT PRINCIPLES | 198 |
Moral Constraints and the State | 26 |
MORAL CONSTRAINTS AND MORAL GOALS | 28 |
WHY SIDE CONSTRAINTS? | 30 |
LIBERTARIAN CONSTRAINTS | 33 |
CONSTRAINTS AND ANIMALS | 35 |
THE EXPERIENCE MACHINE | 42 |
UNDERDETERMINATION OF MORAL THEORY | 45 |
WHAT ARE CONSTRAINTS BASED UPON? | 48 |
THE INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHIST | 51 |
Prohibition Compensation and Risk | 54 |
PROHIBITION AND COMPENSATIONWhy StateofNature Theory ? | 57 |
WHY EVER PROHIBIT?Why StateofNature Theory ? | 58 |
RETRIBUTIVE AND DETERRENCE THEORIES OF PUNISHMENT | 59 |
DIVIDING THE BENEFITS OF EXCHANGE | 63 |
FEAR AND PROHIBITION | 65 |
WHY NOT ALWAYS PROHIBIT? | 71 |
RISK | 73 |
THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPENSATION | 78 |
PRODUCTIVE EXCHANGE | 84 |
The State | 88 |
THE PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS | 90 |
PROCEDURAL RIGHTS | 96 |
HOW MAY THE DOMINANT AGENCY ACT? | 101 |
THE DE FACTO MONOPOLY | 108 |
PROTECTING OTHERS | 110 |
THE STATE | 113 |
THE INVISIBLEHAND EXPLANATION OF THE STATE | 118 |
Further Considerations on the Argument for the State | 120 |
PREEMPTIVE ATTACK | 126 |
BEHAVIOR IN THE PROCESS | 130 |
LEGITIMACY | 133 |
THE RIGHT OF ALL TO PUNISH | 137 |
PREVENTIVE RESTRAINT | 142 |
Beyond the Minimal State? | 147 |
Distributive Justice | 149 |
HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES AND ENDRESULT PRINCIPLES | 153 |
MACRO AND MICRO | 204 |
NATURAL ASSETS AND ARBITRARINESS | 213 |
THE POSITIVE ARGUMENT | 216 |
THE NEGATIVE ARGUMENT | 224 |
COLLECTIVE ASSETS | 228 |
Equality Envy Exploitation Etc | 232 |
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY | 235 |
SELFESTEEM AND ENVY | 239 |
MEANINGFUL WORK | 246 |
WORKERS CONTROL | 250 |
MARXIAN EXPLOITATION | 253 |
VOLUNTARY EXCHANGE | 262 |
PHILANTHROPY | 265 |
HAVING A SAY OVER WHAT AFFECTS YOU | 268 |
THE NONNEUTRAL STATE | 271 |
HOW REDISTRIBUTION OPERATES | 274 |
Demoktesis | 276 |
CONSISTENCY AND PARALLEL EXAMPLES | 277 |
THE MORETHANMINIMAL STATE DERIVED | 280 |
HYPOTHETICAL HISTORIES | 292 |
Utopia | 295 |
A Framework for Utopia | 297 |
THE MODEL PROJECTED ONTO OUR WORLD | 307 |
THE FRAMEWORK | 309 |
DESIGN DEVICES AND FILTER DEVICES | 312 |
THE FRAMEWORK AS UTOPIAN COMMON GROUND | 317 |
COMMUNITY AND NATION | 320 |
COMMUNITIES WHICH CHANGE | 323 |
TOTAL COMMUNITIES | 325 |
UTOPIAN MEANS AND ENDS | 326 |
HOW UTOPIA WORKS OUT | 331 |
UTOPIA AND THE MINIMAL STATE | 333 |
Notes | 335 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Anarchy, State, and Utopia Volume 5038 of Harper Torchbooks |
| Author | Robert Nozick |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1974 |
| ISBN | 0465097200, 9780465097203 |
| Length | 367 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / History & Theory Political Science / Political Process / Leadership |
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