Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgments.


PART I: State-of-Nature Theory, or How to Back into a State
without Really Trying.


1. Why State-of-Nature Theory?.


2. The State of Nature.


3. Moral Constraints and the State.


4. Prohibition, Compensation, and Risk.


5. The State.


6. Further Considerations on the Argument for the State.


PART II: Beyond the Minimal State?.


7. Distributive Justice.


8. Equality, Envy, Exploitation, Etc.


9. Demoktesis.


PART III: Utopia.


10. A Framework for Utopia.


Notes.


Bibliography.


Index

Reviews

"...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time." Mind
"...complex, sophisticated and ingenious." Economist