University Professor Robert Nozick, one of the late 20th century's most influential thinkers, died on the morning of Jan. 23 at the age of 63. He had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1994. ...

Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism by Robert Nozick It is surprising that intellectuals oppose capitalism so. Other groups of comparable socio-economic status do not show the same degree of opposition in the same proportions. Statistically, then, intellectuals are an anomaly. Not all intellectuals are on the left. Like other groups, their opinions are spread along a curve. But in their ...

Macquarie University POL264 Modern Political Theory ROBERT NOZICK: AGAINST DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Copyright 1996 R.J. Kilcullen According to Nozick there are three sets of rules of justice, defining: how things not previously possessed by anyone may be acquired; how possession may be transferred from one person to another; and what must be done to rectify injustices arising from violations of (1) ...

BACK TO NRO Life of Liberty Robert Nozick, R.I.P. By Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, the University of Chicago & Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution January 24, 2002 10:20 a.m. he bulletin on the Harvard University website reported Wednesday today the death at age 63 of Robert Nozick. The release goes on to write what ...

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NOZICK Political and Social Philosophy Phil. 213 R. N. Johnson I. THE ENTITLEMENT THEORY Nozick's Entitlement Theory is based on the idea that only free market exchanges respect people as equals--for him, as ends in themselves . Indeed, even if a free market did not, for instance, produce the most overall well being on Nozick's view, it would be justified. According to Nozick, the theory ...

Philosophy of Values What Does Nozick's Experience Machine Argument Really Prove Eduardo Rivera-Lopez University of Buenos Aires postmast@filpol.filo.uba.ar ABSTRACT: Nozick's well-known Experience Machine argument can be considered a typically successful argument: as far as I know, it has not been discussed much and has been widely seen as conclusive, or at least convincing enough to refute ...

Macquarie University POL264 Modern Political Theory ROBERT NOZICK, ANARCHY STATE & UTOPIA Copyright 1996 R.J. Kilcullen Nozick's opening remark: 'Individuals have rights... so strong and far-reaching that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do' p. ix. The proposition that the state can do nothing is 'anarchy' (meaning not chaos, but 'non-rule' - 'an' ...

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Sexuality Robert Nozick THE MOST INTENSE WAY we relate to another person is sexually. Nothing so concentrates the mind, Dr. Johnson noted, as the prospect of being hanged. Nothing, that is, except sexual arousal and excitement: rising tension, uncertainty about what will happen next, occasional reliefs, sudden surprises, dangers and risks, all in a sequence of heightened attention and tension ...