Anarchy, state, and utopia

Robert Nozick

Oxford, 1974

Abstract

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age —- liberal, socialist and conservative.

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Those retributive theories that hold the punishment somehow should match the crime face a dilemma: either punishment fails to match the wrongness of the crime and so doesn’t retribute fully, or it matches the wrongness of the crime and so is unjustified.

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