Debating Libertarianism : What Makes Society Just? (Debating Ethics)

Freeman, Samuel/ Brennan, Jason

Oxford University Press Inc（2025/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780197540879
• DDC分類 320.512

Full Description

Debating Libertarianism offers readers a sustained debate between two leading political philosophers over which vision of society--Rawlsian left-liberalism or libertarianism--is best and most just. In this crucial and timely book, Samuel Freeman and Jason Brennan consider both fundamental questions of justice and issues of applied policy. Along the way, they debate which economic rights people have; whether democracy liberates people and is essential for social equality, or is merely a tool to promote justice; the justification and extent of property rights and of taxation; whether the fact that freedom permits people to make bad choices is a reason to limit freedom; and whether the modern welfare state is necessary for social justice or instead a barrier to it. Debating Libertarianism offers readers both a succinct defence and critique of two important conceptions of what makes institutions just and good.

Contents

PART 1: The Case Against
Samuel Freeman
Introduction
Chapter 1: Liberalism and Libertarianism
Chapter 2: Ideal Libertarianism and the Orthodox View
Chapter 3: Liberal Libertarianism
Chapter 4: Neoliberalism--the Intersection of Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism
Chapter 5: High Liberalism and Distributive Justice

PART 2: The Case For
Jason Brennan
Introduction
Chapter 6: Rawlsian Liberalism: Why Not
Chapter 7: Why Not Libertarianism?
Chapter 8: Anti-Social Democracy: A Libertarian Left-Wing Critique

PART 3: Responses
Chapter 9: Response to Brennan
Chapter 10: Response to Freeman

Part 1 Bibliography
Part 2 Bibliography
Index