Table of Contents

State-Of-Nature Theory, Or How To Back Into A State Without Really Trying * Why State-of-Nature Theory? * The State of Nature * Moral Constraints and the State * Prohibition, Compensation, and Risk * The State * Further Considerations on the Argument for the State Beyond The Minimal State? * Distributive Justice * Equality, Envy, Exploitation, Etc. * Demoktesis Utopia * A Framework for Utopia

About the Author

Robert Nozick was the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.