PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wilt Chamberlain, Positive Liberty, Plat
23 Jan 2017
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Anarchy, state, and utopia: published by robert nozick in 1975. It was a major challenge to rawls" theory of justice: it defended the lockean tradition of property rights. For nozick, there are absolute constraints upon what people may do to each other: no one may abridge the liberty of another, harm life and limb of another, or take the property of another. To sum it up: whatever comes about by the voluntary consent of individuals who do not violate the rights of others is just. This is a radical critique of modern welfare states or political theory that does not impose strict limits on what people may do to another: laws against pornography or sex discrimination regulate free choice. Nozick"s (cid:498)entitlement theory of justice(cid:499) has 3 principles: 1. It regulates how people can come to own previously unowned things: 2. One can acquire something from another only if the other has the other"s voluntary consent: 3.
