 Protect individual liberty to its

core:
LIBERTARIAN NOZICK’S LIBERTARIAN  Historical and un-patterned
distribution is better than
ARGUMENTS
patterned distribution.
 Night watchmen state
 Preference to individual right
over societal common ‘good’
 Liberty Principle

APPROACHES
CONTRACTARIAN  Equality Principle
Rawls Theory of
 Equal opportunity
Justice Principle
 Difference Principle
 State must eliminate all legal or
birth status related inequalities

ALTERNATIVE
APPROACH

JUSTICE CENTERED THEORY SOCIAL JUSTICE

AND POLITICAL

Individuals can act on their

Positive own initiative
Rights
JUST SOCIETY Rights
Inviolability of persons Negative Limit the ways in which others
Equal citizenship can intrude
Secured Rights
Individual interests are paramount & welfare of
society is subordinate to it Puts limitation on state

 Utilitarianism and neoclassical theories of

political economy are not justice centered