Robert nozick property justice and the minimal state pdf

He then critically reconstructs the key arguments of Anarchy, State, and Utopia , focusing on Nozick's doctrine of rights, his derivation of the minimal state, and his Entitlement Theory of Justice.

Wolff subjects Nozick's reasoning to rigorous scrutiny and argues that, despite the seductive simplicity of Nozick's libertarianism, it is, in the end, neither plausible nor wholly coherent. The book concludes by assessing Nozick's place in contemporary political philosophy. Loeb and David F. Robert Nozick. DOI: Wolff Published Philosophy Introduction. I: Nozicka s Libertarianism. II: Libertarian Rights. V: Nozick and Political Philosophy. Guide to Further Reading.

View via Publisher. Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Background Citations. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Freedom, liberty, and property. Abstract If one values freedom, what sort of regime of property should one favor: libertarianism, socialism, or something else again? Debate on this topic has been hampered by a failure to distingu Nozick is often interpreted as arguing that independents are entitled to protection by the Dominant Protective Agency DPA because the DPA infringes their right to punish those who violate their … Expand.

Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is still influential today among right-wing neo- libertarian thinkers.