Robert Nozick

Dzieła

• 1974Anarchia, państwo, utopia

  Państwo minimalne – i Wilt Chamberlain przeciw Rawlsowi.

Stanowisko

Anarchy, State, and Utopia answered Rawls from a libertarian standpoint. Individuals have rights, Nozick argued, that set strict limits on what others and the state may do to them. Only a minimal state, limited to protection against force, theft and fraud, is justified; any more extensive state violates rights, for example by redistributing through taxation. A distribution is just not because it matches a pattern, but if it arose from just acquisition and voluntary transfer – the “entitlement theory.” His Wilt Chamberlain example was meant to show that liberty upsets patterns. In the same book he devised the “experience machine” to argue that we care about more than pleasant experiences. Nozick later distanced himself from parts of his libertarianism.

Życie i kontekst

Nozick was born in Brooklyn in 1938 to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. He studied at Columbia and Princeton and from 1969 taught at Harvard, where he was a colleague of John Rawls. His wide-ranging interests extended from political philosophy to epistemology, decision theory and the meaning of life. He died in 2002.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
• Philosophical Explanations (1981)
• The Examined Life (1989)
• The Nature of Rationality (1993)

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