Equality and Liberty: Analysing Rawls and Nozick is an indispensable source for those seriously interested in some rigorous assessments of the ideas of America's two most popular political philosophers. The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics, some engaging each other in their analyses of particular Rawlsian or Nozickian themes. This collection of recent essays brings the student up-to-date concerning some of the more recent developments and assessments of Rawlsian and Nozickian ideas.

J. ANGELO CORLETT is a Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He previously taught philosophy at the University of Louisville, Santa Barbara City College and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous articles on social/political philosophy, ethics and epistemology.

Acknowledgements - Introduction; J.A.Corlett - PART 1: ANALYZING RAWLS - Kant and Rawls: Contrasting Conceptions of Moral Theory; J.M.Grcic - Rawls on Natural Inequality; M.Gorr - Defining the Least Advantaged; R.C.Weatherford - Principles for Individual Action; B.T.Wilkins & K.M.Zelikovitz - Rawls and Ownership: The Forgotten Category of Reproductive Labor; S.Schwarzenbach - Reflective Equilibrium and Archimedian Points; N.Daniels - The Claims of Reflective Equilibrium; J.Raz - What is Wrong with Reflective Equilibria?; D.W.Haslett - Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical; J.Rawls - Does Ambiguity Lurk Behind the Veil of Ignorance in Rawls' Original Position?; J.A.Corlett - Rawlsian Constructivism and Moral Theory; D.O.Brink - Capitalism, Socialism, and Justice: Reflections on Rawls's Theory of Justice; K.Nielsen - PART 2: ANALYZING NOZICK - Stability and Utopia: A Critique of Nozick's Framework Argument; M.Fowler - Has Nozick Justified the State; C.Sayward & W.Wasserman - Nozick and the Individualist Anarchist; F.C.Young - Nozick's Argument for the Legitimacy of the Welfare State; M.Davis - An Internal Critique of Nozick's Entitlement Theory; G.Kavka - PART 3: ANALYZING AND RAWLS AND NOZICK - Rawls and Nozick: Justice Without Well-Being; R.Ehman - Bibliography; J.A.Corlett