In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held political and social positions oaf our age--liberal, socialist, and conservative.
Robert Nozick:was the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART Ⅰ
State-of-Nature Theory, or How to Back into a State without Really Trying
1. Why State-of-Nature Theory?
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
EXPLANATORY POLITICAL THEORY
2. The State of Nature
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIONS
THE DOMINANT PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
INVISIBLE-HAND EXPLANATIONS
IS THE DOMINANT PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION A STATE?
3. Moral Constraints and the State
THE MINIMAL STATE AND THE ULTRAMINIMAL STATE
MORAL CONSTRAINTS AND MORAL GOALS
WHY SIDE CONSTRAINTS?
LIBERTARIAN CONSTRAINTS
CONSTRAINTS AND ANIMALS
THE EXPERIENCE MACHINE
UNDERDETERMINATION OF MORAL THEORY
WHAT ARE CONSTRAINTS BASED UPON?
THE INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHIST
4. Prohibition, Compensation, and Risk
INDEPENDENTS AND THE DOMINANT PROTECTIVE AGENCY
PROHIBITION AND COMPENSATION
WHY EVER PROHIBIT.)
RETRIBUTIVE AND DETERRENCE THEORIES OF PUNISHMENT
DIVIDING THE BENEFITS OF EXCHANGE
FEAR AND PROHIBITION
WHY NOT ALWAYS PROHIBIT.)
RISK
THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPENSATION
PRODUCTIVE EXCHANGE
5. The State
PROHIBITING PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT OF JUSTICE
"THE PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS"
PROCEDURAL RIGHTS
HOW MAY THE DOMINANT AGENCY ACT.)
THE DE FACTO MONOPOLY
PROTECTING OTHERS
THE STATE
THE INVISIBLE-HAND EXPLANATION OF THE STATE
6. Further Considerations on the Argument for the State
STOPPING THE PROCESS.)
PREEMPTIVE ATTACK
BEHAVIOR IN THE PROCESS
LEGITIMACY
THE RIGHT OF ALL TO PUNISH
PREVENTIVE RESTRAINT
PART Ⅱ
Beyond the Minimal State?
7. Distributive Justice
SECTION I:
THE ENTITLEMENT THEORY
HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES AND END-RESULT PRINCIPLES
PATTERNING
HOW LIBERTY UPSETS PATTERNS
SEN'S ARGUMENT
REDISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
LOCKE'S THEORY OF ACQUISITION
THE PROVISO
SECTION II:
RAWLS' THEORY
SOCIAL COOPERATION
TERMS OF COOPERATION AND THE DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE
THE ORIGINAL POSITION AND END-RESULT PRINCIPLES
MACRO AND MICRO
NATURAL ASSETS AND ARBITRARINESS
THE POSITIVE ARGUMENT
THE NEGATIVE ARGUMENT
COLLECTIVE ASSETS
8. Equality, Envy, Exploitation, Etc.
EQUALITY
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
SELF-ESTEEM AND ENVY
MEANINGFUL WORK
WORKERS' CONTROL
MARXIAN EXPLOITATION
VOLUNTARY EXCHANGE
PHILANTHROPY
HAVING A SAY OVER WHAT AFFECTS YOU
THE NONNEUTRAL STATE
HOW REDISTRIBUTION OPERATES
9. Demoktesis
CONSISTENCY AND PARALLEL EXAMPLES
THE MORE-THAN-MINIMAL STATE DERIVED
HYPOTHETICAL HISTORIES
PART Ⅲ
Utopia
10. A Framework for Utopia
THE MODEL
THE MODEL PROJECTED ONTO OUR WORLD
THE FRAMEWORK
DESIGN DEVICES AND FILTER DEVICES
THE FRAMEWORK AS UTOPIAN COMMON GROUND
COMMUNITY AND NATION
COMMUNITIES WHICH CHANGE
TOTAL COMMUNITIES
UTOPIAN MEANS AND ENDS
HOW UTOPIA WORKS OUT
UTOPIA AND THE MINIMAL STATE
Notes
Bibliography
Index