The great books, mapped by who answered whom.
For readers who teach themselves. Each line joins a text to one it criticises, answers or builds on.
Debates
Two texts, one question, and where they part ways.
- What makes a distribution of wealth and income just?
Whether justice judges the pattern of outcomes or the history of how holdings came about. Rawls asks what the basic structure of society should secure for its least advantaged members. Nozick answers that any pattern, however attractive, can only be maintained by continually interfering with free exchanges between people, and so violates their rights.
Paths
Each one answers a question in a few texts.
- The Social Contract Debate
What makes political authority legitimate?