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  2. Jun 22, 2014 · 1. Nozick’s Life and Times. 2. Moral Rights and Side-Constraints. 2.1 State of Nature Rights. 2.2 The Foundation of Rights. 2.3 Rights as Side Constraints. 2.4 The Attenuation of Rights. 3. The Minimal State versus Individualist Anarchism. 3.1 The Challenge of Individualist Anarchism. 3.2 Response to the Anarchist Challenge. 3.3.

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  3. According to Nozick, anyone who acquired what he has through these means is morally entitled to it. Thus the “entitlement” theory of justice states that the distribution of holdings in a society is just if (and only if) everyone in that society is entitled to what he has.

  4. The state, it is held (by, for instance, Rawls and his followers), simply must engage in redistributive taxation in order to ensure that a fair distribution of wealth and income obtains in the society it governs. Nozick’s answer to this objection constitutes his “entitlement theory” of justice.

  5. In The Nature of Rationality, Nozick calls truth a primary good, explicitly appropriating Rawls' A Theory of Justice. In the same work, however, Nozick implies that minimum wage laws are unjust b , and later denigrates Marxism before vindicating capitalism, making reference to Adam Smith 's The Wealth of Nations .

  6. Apr 26, 2024 · Following the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke, Nozick assumes that everyone possesses the natural rights to life, liberty, and property, including the right to claim as property the fruits or products of one’s labour and the right to dispose of one’s property as one sees fit (provided that in doing so one does not violate the ...

  7. Nozick thinks individual rights are so strong that his theory will require significant constraints on state action vis-à-vis individuals. For him, the state’s proper purview is protection of persons and their assorted property rights.

  8. Right-Based Dimension of his Political Theory. Theo Papaioannou. Abstract. Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is still influential today among right-wing (neo-)libertarian thinkers. The latter are engaged in the current debate on distributive justice, insistently defending the. minimal state and the case against social justice on the grounds of.

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