Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

1 Nozick’s Introduction and Preface 1

2 Ethical Bearings 9

3 The Experience Machine 40

4 Why State of Nature Theory? 54

5 The Invisible Hand and the Justification of the State 70

6 Risk, Fear, and Procedural Rights 85

7 Has the Dominant Protective Association Become a State? 125

8 Distributive Justice 154

9 The Search for Utopia 200

Index 000

About the Author

Lester H. Hunt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue (1991) and Character and Culture (1997).

Reviews

Anarchy, State, & Utopia is one of the truly great political philosophy works of the past century, wonderfully inviting but with complex twists that have intrigued but also puzzled readers. The great merit of Lester Hunt's Guide is to offer a clear and perspicuous map for a new generation entering its precincts. I highly recommend it both to students and their teachers. Loren Lomasky, University of Virginia The book's subtitle bills the book as an advanced guide. Guidance it provides: advanced indeed, sympathetic yet critical. The level of insightful detail on the topics of the invisible hand and utopia is unprecedented. David Schmidtz, University of Arizona