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Aug 11, 2020 · This is American philosopher Robert Nozick’s bold pronouncement at the beginning of anarchy, state, and utopia, a 1975 book that is largely a response to Rawl’s 1971 A Theory of Justice. It's the classic modern defense of libertarian political philosophy. For Nozick, the rights that individuals have are natural, of fundamental importance ...
Oct 21, 2016 · Ayn Rand's audience is typically comprised of non-philosophers (and includes a shocking number of angsty teenagers). Nozick's audience is filled with people who are engaged in academic philosophy. This is because Nozick's work was a genuine piece of academic scholarship, while Rand's writings were for the popular masses.
Sep 20, 2019 · Nozick, if I remember correctly, was the one who coined the modern term "Lockean proviso" in analyzing Locke's "enough and as good for others" remark. Nozick dedicates a whole section to analyzing Locke's labor theory and the Lockean proviso starting from p. 174. I don't think he was the first one to "come up" with this argument in ~2500 years.
Mar 23, 2014 · I think this is basically true. The quote you cited is from an interview with Julian Sanchez -- Nozick's last interview before his death. It's true that Nozick didn't support the libertarianism of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, but he was still a libertarian broadly conceived.
Apr 11, 2019 · It seems to me that Nozick is trying to say that Rawls' redistributive measures violate the rights of some in order to increase the rights of others. While Rawls thinks that (quoted from my textbook) "no one really deserves any particular allotment of benefits or burdens -- and so equality is the most reasonable basis for the distribution of ...
Sep 5, 2018 · Robert Nozick’s Arguments for Vegetarianism. Robert Nozick was apparently a vegetarian for most of his life, a position he took on philosophical grounds. He briefly discusses his views in “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” but doesn’t go into much detail on his arguments.
Jun 10, 2024 · Robert Nozick was a libertarian philosopher, best known for his book “Anarchy, State, and Utopia.”. He lays out a set of scenarios, which I’ve modified a little bit, but the idea is a gradual transition from slavery to western democracy. 1: A slave is owned by a cruel master, works all day every day, gets minimal rations, no pay, and has ...
Oct 29, 2020 · **Marxism** is a growing/changing economic/sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry based upon a materialist interpretation of historical development, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis of class-relations within society and their application in the analysis and critique of the development of capitalism.
Jul 5, 2014 · She argued that, following Nozick's theory of reparations, affirmative action was necessary compensation to minorities (racial,gender,etc) for hundreds of years of oppression and the mass profit off of things such as slavery. She pointed out that if Nozick's theories held, the most libertarian stance towards affirmative action was to support it.
Dec 1, 2023 · Did Robert Nozick truly make a grammatical mistake here? First para. of Chapter 7, on page 149, in Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974). In this chapter we consider the claim that a more extensive state is justified, because necessary (or the best instrument) to achieve distributive justice [emphasis mine]; in the next chapter we shall take up diverse other claims.
