Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wilt Chamberlain, Robert Nozick, Cosmopolitanism
10 Dec 2016
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Rawls: principles we would agree to if we didn"t know the results of the. Nozick: respecting self-ownership rights and private property rights, thereby natural and social lotteries limiting state interference. Three ways to legitimately come to own things. Historical, not end-state: no end-state to look for, history of the transfers that matters. Reject patterned principles like need, ability, or desert: distribute according to need, ability. Nozick: historical and unpatterned principles: from each as they choose, from each they are chosen. If we voluntarily pay to see him play he deserves it. All steps from d1 to d2 are voluntary: if every exchange is voluntary how can you object. Liberty upsets patterns: patterns will violate freedom. If we own ourselves, does it follow that we may use our talents to obtain absolute property rights: the state is unjustified in taxing, taxation is on par with forced labour.
