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

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Equity

  • 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
  • John Locke's (1689) Second Treatise of Government grounded natural rights in life, liberty, and property; John Stuart Mill's (1859) On Liberty articulated the harm principle constraining liberty-infringement; the distinction between natural-rights foundations (Locke, Nozick, libertarian tradition) and utility-maximizing frameworks (Mill, consequentialists) remains central to rights theory.

    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.

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