7, Section 2) and other arguments attempting to justify more than the night-watchman state (Ch. I shall thus not address his discussions of Rawls' theory of justice (Ch. Nozicks main con clusions are that the minimal. Below I shall focus only on his core argument. In this thesis, the political philosophy of Robert Nozick as espoused in Anarchy, State, and Utopia is examined. The argument is complex, and Nozick often inserts long-and very interesting-digressions. It won the 1975 US National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion, has been translated into 11 languages, and was named one of the '100 most influential books since the war' (19451995) by the UK Times Literary Supplement.

The other is that nothing more extensive than the night-watchman state is legitimate, except with the consent of all. Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a 1974 book by the American political philosopher Robert Nozick. One is that a night-watchman state (which protects only against violence, theft, fraud, and breach of contract) could be legitimate, even without the consent of all those to be governed. At the core of Nozick's book are two arguments. This all changed with the publication of Rawls's articulation and defense of liberal egalitarianism and Nozick's libertarian challenge to the legitimacy of anything more than the night-watchman state. Moreover, to the extent that normative theories were considered, utilitarianism was the center of attention. For much of the preceding half-century, under the influence of logical positivism's heavy emphasis on empirical verifiability, much of moral philosophy was taken up with meta-ethics (e.g., the semantics of moral discourse)-with little attention given to normative moral theories.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), radically changed the landscape in analytic political philosophy.

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