Publisher's Synopsis
This book has two related aims: firstly, it seeks to move discussion of Nozick?s moral and political philosophy on from the well-known claims of Anarchy, State and Utopia; secondly, it seeks to discuss the liberal aspiration of ?neutrality? between ideals, especially the difficulty of providing a non-pragmatic justification of neutralism without presupposing a partisan ideal. Political philosophers usually still discuss Nozick in terms of his libertarianism and entitlement theory of justice. His later views (including on ethics as responsiveness to value, on value as organic unity and on pluralism), and the question of how these might connect with the earlier ones have received very little attention. Dr Hailwood?s work explores these connections using the issue of neutrality as a unifying theme, and in so doing it provides a more up to date critique of Nozick, and examines neutralism from some fresh and surprising angles.
