Libertarianism without inequality / Michael Otsuka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Otsuka, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libertarianism.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 158 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this book is to vindicate 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. The book shows how John Locke's Second Treatise of Government provides the theoretical foundations for a left-libertarianism that is both more libertarian and more egalitarian than the Kantian liberal theories of John Rawls and Thomas Nagel.

Contents:

Self-ownership and equality

Making the unjust provide for the disabled

The right to punish

Killing the innocent in self-defence

Political society as a voluntary association

Left-libertarianism versus liberal egalitarianism

The problem of intergenerational sovereignty.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-154) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-103726-5

0-19-928018-5

1-281-98985-1

9786611989859

0-19-152950-8

OCLC:

77268446