<p>This thesis aims at answering the following questions:1) How can the existence of a state be justified?2) To what extent does the state have the right to restrict individual´s liberty of action?3) To what extent does the state have the right to <em>restrict or redistribute</em> any kind of "goods", and if so, which restrictions should be allowed on which"goods"?4) Can a moral theory be "goal-directed", and are there moral reasons that it should be "goaldirected"?</p><p>In order to answer these questions, I will analyze Robert Nozick´s and Michael Walzer´s answers to these questions, as presented in <em>Anarchy, State and Utopia</em> (1974) and <em>Spheres of Justice</em> (1983). My answers, which are founded on an argument for the necessity of freedom of choice and ambition-sensitivity in theories of justice, are results of a compromise between the ideas in these theories, but also partially on criticism of both theories.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:liu-1314 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Andersson, Anna-Karin |
| Publisher | Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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