Abstract
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist conservative. Individuals have rights, Nozick writes in his opening sentence, and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their The work that follows is a sophisticated passionate defence of the rights of the individual as opposed to the state. The author argues that the state is justified only when it is severely limited to the narrow function of protection against force, theft fraud to the enforcement of contracts. Any more extensive activities by the state, he demonstrates, will inevitably violate individual rights. Among the many achievements of the work are an important new theory of distributive justice, a model of utopia, an integration of ethics, legal philosophy economic theory into a profound position in political philosophy which will be discussed for years to come.
Keywords
UtopiaPolitical philosophyState (computer science)PoliticsLaw and economicsEconomic JusticePolitical scienceEnforcementDistributive justiceLawSociologyPhilosophy
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- 2018
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- 709-717
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- 6694
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Robert Nozick
(2018).
Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
Princeton University Press eBooks
, 709-717.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19fvzzk.69
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- 10.2307/j.ctv19fvzzk.69