PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Robert Nozick, Negative And Positive Rights, Distributive Justice
4 Dec 2020
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Robert nozick, representing libertarian wing of democratic theory. For nozick the fundamental political principle on top of nonnative hierarchy is liberty. To remedy the problem of violence and to establish peace, the classic liberal view proposes a model of state, called night-watchman. That provides protection for all its citizens. Nozick calls this model minimal and adds that it is redistributive in its function. He distinguishes it from an ultraminimal model of state where people purchase protection from the state: by minimal it means less interfering of citizens as their authority of the state. Nozick believes that what makes an individual worth protection is what he calls side- constraints on others" actions. Side-constrain is the individual right, which in a kantian sense is inviolable. For nozick the state is a protective association in a territory with monopoly on the use of violence that results from moving out of the state of nature to ultraminimal or minimal contract.
