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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

An Advanced Guide

By: Lester H. Hunt

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick’s highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism—considered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century. Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick’s complex masterpiece Explains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick’s theory of free market libertarianism Enables a new generation of readers to draw their own conclusions about the wealth of timely ideas on individualism and libertarian philosophy Indicates where Nozick’s theory has explanatory power, where it is implausible, and where there are loose ends with further work to be done

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118880471

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9781118880470

Debating Gun Control

How Much Regulation Do We Need?

By: David DeGrazia,Lester H. Hunt

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Debating Gun Control

How Much Regulation Do We Need?

By: David DeGrazia,Lester H. Hunt

Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns. The United States leads all nations in rates of private gun ownership, yet stories of gun tragedies frequent the news, spurring calls for tighter gun regulations. The debate tends to be acrimonious and is frequently misinformed and illogical. The central question is the extent to which federal or state governments should regulate gun ownership and use in the interest of public safety. In this volume, David DeGrazia and Lester Hunt examine this policy question primarily from the standpoint of ethics: What would morally defensible gun policy in the United States look like? Hunt's contribution argues that the U.S. Constitution is right to frame the right to possess a firearm as a fundamental human right. The right to arms is in this way like the right to free speech. More precisely, it is like the right to own and possess a cell phone or an internet connection. A government that banned such weapons would be violating the right of citizens to protect themselves. This is a function that governments do not perform: warding off attacks is not the same thing as punishing perpetrators after an attack has happened. Self-protection is a function that citizens must carry out themselves, either by taking passive steps (such as better locks on one's doors) or active ones (such as acquiring a gun and learning to use it safely and effectively). DeGrazia's contribution features a discussion of the Supreme Court cases asserting a constitutional right to bear arms, an analysis of moral rights, and a critique of the strongest arguments for a moral right to private gun ownership. He follows with both a consequentialist case and a rights-based case for moderately extensive gun control, before discussing gun politics and advancing policy suggestions. In debating this important topic, the authors elevate the quality of discussion from the levels that usually prevail in the public arena. DeGrazia and Hunt work in the discipline of academic philosophy, which prizes intellectual honesty, respect for opposing views, command of relevant facts, and rigorous reasoning. They bring the advantages of philosophical analysis to this highly-charged issue in the service of illuminating the strongest possible cases for and against (relatively extensive) gun regulations and whatever common ground may exist between these positions.

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Oxford University Press

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019025128X

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9780190251284

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau

Ethics, Politics, and Nature

By: Lester H. Hunt

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The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau

Ethics, Politics, and Nature

By: Lester H. Hunt

Henry Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the greatest nature writers, among whose best-known works are Walden and Walking. In this book, Lester Hunt shows that his writings have a compelling philosophical dimension as well. Thoreau seldom argues for his ideas the way other philosophers do. Rather than setting up proofs designed to trap the reader into agreeing with him, he challenges the reader – by means of narratives, jokes, questions, and paradoxes -- to recognize possibilities previously unknown and unexplored. Thoreau's own explorations led him to several distinctively philosophical theories: an intuitionist metaethics, an ethics based on virtue and self-realization, a politics that is fundamentally individualist and anarchist, and a secular religion in which nature is pre-eminent.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350079049

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9781350079045

Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue

By: Lester H. Hunt

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Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue

By: Lester H. Hunt

Lester Hunt examines in detail areas such as Nietzsche's views on human rights, his `anti-political` stance and his unusual use of the idea of `experimentation' as an ethical ideal. Should we accept and use his ideas?

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Routledge

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1134865732

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9781134865734

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau

Ethics, Politics, and Nature

By: Lester H. Hunt

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Ethics, Politics, and Nature

By: Lester H. Hunt

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Debating Gun Control

Debating Gun Control

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau

Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue

Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau

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