Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick proposes his minimal state as the only justifiable form of government.
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Background
- Born in
- Brooklyn
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityColumbia University
- Awards
- 🏆 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award🏆 Fulbright Scholarship🏆 National Book Award🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Tanner Lectures on Human Values
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Elijah Millgram📖 Tamar Gendler
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Trending topics shown first"In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to part…"
"Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process , is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something’s getting made, and there being an open …"
"Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them . So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its offici…"
"Some anarchists have claimed not merely that we would be better off without a state, but that any state necessarily violates people's moral rights and hence is intrinsically immoral. Our starting poin…"
"No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified."
"Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later."
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