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RE: Three Principles of Justice: Acquisition, Transfer and Rectification
Thank you for providing thought provoking material, this is the first time I read about Nozick.
Thank you for providing thought provoking material, this is the first time I read about Nozick.
Some of the people posting about these ideas, like @fatkat, mention him, but most people don't. And no one talks about rectification of past property-based injustices.
I guess my worry is that in thinking through and posting about this approach to society and politics, a lot of people here are trying to reinvent the wheel - as if no one in mainstream political philosophy has ever thought about this stuff before.
Nozick and his Harvard colleague, John Rawls, held opposing but extremely influential views about what counts as a just and fair society; libertarian and minimal state from Nozick, social democracy and income redistribution from Rawls. I think it's hard to really understand what's going on in the modern version of these debates without having some contact with their ideas.