Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cosmopolitanism, Wilt Chamberlain, Robert Nozick

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Bruce Morrison

Document Summary

Lecture 5: social justice 2: nozick, desert, social vs. Committed to the idea of self-ownership and arguing for a laissez-faire state. Opposes redistributive taxation: wealthy should only give to poor voluntarily: people can do what they like with what is theirs: Selves, the natural world, things people make by applying themselves to the natural world. Three ways to acquire legitimate property holding: initial acquisition, voluntary transfer, and rectification. Initial acquisition: to make property previously unowned parts of world (first come first serve basis: world is initially unowned and becomes private property of individuals this way. Voluntary transfer: have something, give it away to someone: sell or lease for certain price, legitimate transfer of property. Unjustified restrictions on people"s liberty: use institutions in a way to extend self-ownership to include ownership of the products made by the self. Markets are essential to individual freedom or to respecting people"s self ownership.