POLS 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Totalitarianism, Wilt Chamberlain, Lockean Proviso

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 351
• Professor: Margaret R Moore

Document Summary

Became a dominant theory of libertarian theory. Not arguing that government could lead to totalitarianism. Principle of justice in acquisition: people lost their rights. How is it that people can come to own things that were previously un- owned. Not that easy to argue that something that was common can become exclusively. Nozick, anarchy, state and utopia 1974 (cid:498)the minimal state is the most extensive state that can be justified. Argues for a minimal state no public heathcare, public education, . A state that is limited to narrow functions of protection against coercion, theft, fraud etc . Couldn(cid:495)t give too much power to government. )f you believe in people(cid:495)s rights, committed to minimal state. Nozick(cid:495)s libertarianism: views redistribute taxation as inherently wrong . Locke he sought to suggest that a process of common land acquisition could be justified. Locke(cid:495)s answer we are entitled to appropriate bits of external world, if we leave enough and is.