Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick: Volume 22, Part 1

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Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul
Cambridge University Press, 2005 - 403 pages
This collection of essays is dedicated to the memory of the late Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick, who died in 2002. The publication of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia in 1974 revived serious interest in natural rights liberalism, which, beginning in the latter half of the eighteenth century, had been eclipsed by a succession of antithetical political theories including utilitarianism, progressivism, and various egalitarian and collectivist ideologies. Some of our contributors critique Nozick's political philosophy. Other contributors examine earlier figures in the liberal tradition, most notably John Locke, whose Second Treatise of Government, published in the late seventeenth century, profoundly influenced the American founders. The remaining authors analyze natural rights liberalism's central doctrines.
 

Contents

MICHAEL ZUCKERT Natural Rights and Imperial
27
EDWARD FESER There Is No Such Thing as
56
Filling the Space
81
JOHN HASNAS Toward a Theory of Empirical
111
DAVID SCHMIDTZ History and Pattern
148
LOREN E LOMASKY Libertarianism at Twin Harvard
178
JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS Sidney Hook Robert Nozick
200
Fairness
255
CHRISTOPHER W MORRIS Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy
314
A JOHN SIMMONS Consent Theory for Libertarians
330
ERIC MACK Prerogatives Restrictions and Rights
357
Index
395
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