The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations
by:
Robert Nozick (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780671472184 (0671472186)
Publish date: October 15th 1989
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Nozick is most famous for his defense of libertarianism in Anarchy, State and Utopia. I consider myself a libertarian, but ultimately found myself unsatisfied with it. People spoke of how original it was and how rigorous. But it was like that old saw, what was good wasn't original; what wasn't origi...
Nozick's musings in Examined Life are varied and interesting. His political leanings after a lifetime of philosophizing are much less brash than the ideas in his earlier work, Anarchy, State and Utopia. He no longer espouses anarcho-capitalism, and arguably not even libertarianism, making this, for ...