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Robert Nozick Anarchy State amp Utopia
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'Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).' • This is American philosopher Robert Nozick’s bold pronouncement at the beginning of anarchy, state, and utopia, a 1975 book that is largely a response to Rawl’s 1971 A Theory of Justice. It's the classic modern defense of libertarian political philosophy. • For Nozick, the rights that individuals have are natural, of fundamental importance, and completely, universally, unequivocally inviolable. • These rights, he argues, must be respected at all costs. • They aren’t designed by institutions, or dreamed up by revolutionaries, written into contracts and protected by lawyers. They are part of being human. • How then is a state justifiable? Taxation, the rule of law, a system that forces its citizens to pay for roads, schools and hospitals is surely a violation of an individual's natural rights as a human to be free to make their own choices. • ‘Boundary crossing’, as Nozick calls it, crossing the line and infringing upon a person's freedom, is surely only permissible with consent. • This, loosely, is the position of the anarchist. • The anarchist argues that because of the inviolability of individuals, no state can be justified. • For Nozick, this is the fundamental question of political philosophy: whether there should be any state at all. • He wants to justify what he calls a minimal state. One that simply protects an individual’s right to freedom, and nothing else. He wants to argue that this is both justified philosophically, and, could develop from a state of nature historically. • Then Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 • Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: • https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... • Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: • https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L • Follow me on: • Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow • Instagram: / thethenandnow • Twitter: / lewlewwaller • Subscribe to the podcast: • https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... • https://open.spotify.com/show/1Khac2i...
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