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Nozick on Distributive Justice
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- Robert Nozick: Distributive Justice. Philosophy &Public Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn, 1973), pp. 45-126
- A chapter from Robert Nozick´s Anarchy, State and Utopia. Published 1973.
- A critique on Rawls´s Theory of Justice.
The basic principles of entitlement are:
(1)A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding.
(2)A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in transfer, from someone else entitled to the holding, is entitled to the holding.
(3)No-one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated ) applications of (1) and (2)
P.47.
“Welfare economics is the theory of current time-slice principles of justice. The subject is conceived as operating on matrices representing only current information about distribution. This, as well as some of the usual conditions, guarantees that welfare economics will be a current time-slice theory, with all of its inadequacies.”
“Intuitively, the most obvious injustice of the system of natural liberty is that it permits distributive shares to be improperly influenced by these factors so arbitrary from a moral point of view.” Rawls – 12. P. 75.
1. Any person should morally deserve the holdings he has; it shouldn't be that persons have holdings they don't deserve.
2. People do not morally deserve their natural assets.
3. If a person's X partially determines his Y, and his X is undeserved then so is his Y.
Therefore,
4. People's holdings shouldn't be partially determined by their natural assets.
1. People deserve their natural assets.
2. If people deserve X, they deserve any Y that flows from X.
3. People's holdings flow from their natural assets.
Therefore:
4. People deserve their holdings.
5. If people deserve something, then they ought to have it (and this overrides any presumption of equality there may be about that thing).
Robert Nozick on Distributive Justice
Entitlement
Fairness
On natural talents
The positive connection
- Natural Assets and Arbitrariness
- The Positive Connection
- The Negative Connection
The negative connection
The principles of entitlement
Nozick says:
Fairness vs. Entitlement