Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-19-924395-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Establishes a genuinely new position in political philosophy
Key Features:
- Reclaims libertarianism from the Right
- Offers a vision of a free and fair society
- Could change the face of political thought
Description:
Michael Otsuka's ingenious and exciting book vindicates left-libertarianism, a political philosophy which combines stringent rights of control over one's own mind, body, and life with egalitarian rights of ownership of the world. He reclaims the ideas of John Locke from the libertarian right, and defends a view which is both more libertarian and more egalitarian than the Kantian liberalism of John Rawls. Otsuka endorses a fully egalitarian principle of equal opportunity for welfare and defends a pluralistic, decentralized ideal of political society. Libertarianism without Inequality is a book that everyone interested in political theory should read.
Contents:
Introduction; I. Self-Ownership and World-Ownership; Self-Ownership and Equality; Making the Unjust Provide for the Disabled; II. Punishment and Self-Defence; The Right to Punish; Killing the Innocent in Self-Defence; III. Political Society; Political Society as a Voluntary Association; Left-Libertarianism Versus Liberal Egalitarianism; The Problem of Intergenerational Sovereignty; Bibliography; Index
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of political philosophy, political theory, and moral philosophy, jurists
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikberatung
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
