Deleting the State: An Argument About Government

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Is the state a necessary evil? Or can we hope to evolve beyond it? This book, in the tradition of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, sheds new light on persistent philosophical questions about the nature and justification of political authority.

Analysis of various arguments for the state show that they explicitly or tacitly rest on what the author calls the Hobbesian Fear-the conviction that mutual warfare would emerge in the absence of political authority. If the ...

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Overview

Is the state a necessary evil? Or can we hope to evolve beyond it? This book, in the tradition of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, sheds new light on persistent philosophical questions about the nature and justification of political authority.

Analysis of various arguments for the state show that they explicitly or tacitly rest on what the author calls the Hobbesian Fear-the conviction that mutual warfare would emerge in the absence of political authority. If the Hobbesian Fear turns out to be unfounded, standard arguments for the necessity and moral legitimacy of the state will be undermined.

One embodiment of the Hobbesian Fear is the theory that social cooperation is menaced by Prisoner's Dilemma-type situations. Yet advances in game theory suggest that if the Prisoner's Dilemma situation is repeated, cooperation usually becomes the winning strategy: practices and norms of social cooperation tend to emerge spontaneously.

About the Author:
Aeon J. Skoble is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts

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  • ISBN-13: 9780812696141
  • Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 4/28/2007
  • Pages: 160
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     ix
Liberalism, Libertarianism, and the State     1
Coercion, State, and Defense of Liberty     15
The Hobbesian Fear     39
Allaying the Hobbesian Fear     55
Disaster Relief in a Free Society: An Extended Example     85
Incommensurability and the Problem of the Practical     103
Bibliography     121
Index     125
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