Philosopher

Robert Paul Wolff

Overview

Robert Paul Wolff (December 27, 1933 – January 6, 2025) was an American political philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Wolff wrote widely on topics in political philosophy, including Marxism, tolerance (against liberalism and in favor of anarchism), political justification, and democracy.

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Philosophers who discussed Robert Paul Wolff

• Herbert Marcuse
• C. I. Lewis
• Derek Parfit
• Allan Bloom

Ideas Robert Paul Wolff discusses

• Anarcho-capitalism
• Anarchism
• John Rawls
• Immanuel Kant
• Private property
• John Stuart Mill
• Karl Marx
• Harvard University
• Doctrine
• Marxism
• Autonomy
• Liberalism
• Social relation
• A Theory of Justice
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Chicago
• Toleration
• Herbert Marcuse
• The Philosophical Review
• Right-libertarianism
• Capitalism
• Columbia University
• Conservatism
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Place in the tradition

Part of Anarchism.

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