Nozick's 'Anarchy State And Utopia'
Notes and Questions
ROBERT NOZICK, from Anarchy State, and Utopia
1. Robert Nozick defends liberal individualism and private ownership using his own development of Lockean natural rights theory. Ownership is justified, according to Nozick, if it is (a) justly acquired or (b) justly transferred and (c) not subject to the principle of rectification. Explain these three principles.
2.Nozick discusses the distinction between historical and end-state or patterned theories of property distribution. How does a patterned theory of distribution work? Do you agree with Nozick that F. A. Hayek’s theory is a patterned theory? How does Nozick’s own historical theory work?
3. Nozick argues that freedom upsets patterns. Thus, any patterned theory of distribution will require constant interference. How does the Wilt Chamberlain example show that this is true? What does this point amount to?
4. Nozick claims that taxation is equal to forced labor. How does he argue for this claim?
5. How …show more content…
Does his use depart significantly from Locke’s own? If so, in what way?
6. Does Locke’s proviso still hold, according to Nozick? What are the two interpretations he offers for it? Which does he defend and why? Reasonably interpreted, should Locke’s proviso have a great impact on Nozick’s theory of property?
[From] Anarchy, State, and UtopiaROBERT NOZICK The subject of justice in holdings consists of three major topics. The first is the original acquisition of holdings, the appropriation of unheld things. This includes the issues of how unheld things may come to be held, the process, or processes, by which unheld things may come to be held, the things that may come to be held by these
ROBERT NOZICK, from Anarchy State, and Utopia
1. Robert Nozick defends liberal individualism and private ownership using his own development of Lockean natural rights theory. Ownership is justified, according to Nozick, if it is (a) justly acquired or (b) justly transferred and (c) not subject to the principle of rectification. Explain these three principles.
2.Nozick discusses the distinction between historical and end-state or patterned theories of property distribution. How does a patterned theory of distribution work? Do you agree with Nozick that F. A. Hayek’s theory is a patterned theory? How does Nozick’s own historical theory work?
3. Nozick argues that freedom upsets patterns. Thus, any patterned theory of distribution will require constant interference. How does the Wilt Chamberlain example show that this is true? What does this point amount to?
4. Nozick claims that taxation is equal to forced labor. How does he argue for this claim?
5. How …show more content…
Does his use depart significantly from Locke’s own? If so, in what way?
6. Does Locke’s proviso still hold, according to Nozick? What are the two interpretations he offers for it? Which does he defend and why? Reasonably interpreted, should Locke’s proviso have a great impact on Nozick’s theory of property?
[From] Anarchy, State, and UtopiaROBERT NOZICK The subject of justice in holdings consists of three major topics. The first is the original acquisition of holdings, the appropriation of unheld things. This includes the issues of how unheld things may come to be held, the process, or processes, by which unheld things may come to be held, the things that may come to be held by these