Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Nozick, R. (1974). Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1974

Link

https://archive.org/details/anarchystateutop0000nozi

Cited from

law_governance, philosophy

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Equity
  • Nozick (1974) gives this tension its sharpest form, defending entitlement-based rule-following against patterned redistributive flexibility.

    This sourceDefends an entitlement theory of justice (justice in acquisition, transfer, rectification) as a non-patterned historical principle, arguing that maintaining patterns requires continuous interference with voluntary exchange (the Wilt Chamberlain argument).

• Fairness
  • Fairness is not charity or generosity, a distinction Nozick (1974) emphasizes in Anarchy, State, and Utopia: voluntary transfer is supererogatory, while just holdings under entitlement theory are enforceable as a matter of right.
• Rights vs. Freedoms

  • This sourceDefends an entitlement theory of justice grounded in historical rules of acquisition and transfer; sharpens the rule-predictability vs. case-particular flexibility tension by rejecting patterned outcome-adjustments as illegitimate intrusions on rule-following.

Mechanisms

• Rights Constraint
  • It works precisely because it treats the right as a side constraint on action rather than a value to be maximized — you may not violate it in pursuit of the good, however great.

    This sourceTreats rights as moral side constraints that restrict what may be done to people in pursuit of otherwise desirable goals.

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