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Jan Narveson's The Libertarian Idea is a dense and thorough explanation and defense of libertarian theory.

Jan Narveson's The Libertarian Idea is a dense and thorough explanation and defense of libertarian theory. It's not quite as easy to read as Robert Nozick's famed Anarchy, State, and Utopia (also not a simple undertaking), but it is perhaps more comprehensive in laying out the foundations of libertarian theory. This project occupies Part 1 of the book, with Narveson taking explicit and welcome pains to avoid any appeals to moral intuition. Part 2 is dedicated to a defense of the theory laid out in part one, often by addressing specific objections to libertarianism.

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Jan Narveson, influencedby Nozick and David Gauthier,is perhaps the most distinguished exception to this generalization. Nar-veson offersvery valuable classificationsof a large number of terms vital to any discussion of political philosophy, . freedom, rights, intervention, acquisition,etc. His out-standing new book is a thoroughgoing defense of libertarianism. Before turning to a discussion of the book, it is worth notingthat there is a group of philosophers sympathetic to libertarianism whose work has been to a large extent independent of Nozick. After a definition of libertarianism as the view that "the only relevant consideration in political matters.

The Libertarian Idea book. Jan Narveson's The Libertarian Idea is a dense and thorough explanation and defense of libertarian theory.

Libertarianism is both a philosophy and a political view Jan Narveson is Professor of Philosophy at Waterloo University. Библиографические данные. The Libertarian Idea. Broadview Press, 2001.

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Jan Narveson, OC (born 1936) is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Narveson was born in Erskine, Minnesota, United States. He studied at the University of Chicago where he obtained a .