October 05, 2012
The One-Boxer Argument for Voting
Jason Brennan’s excellent The Ethics of Voting dispatches a number of familiar arguments for a duty to vote and provides grounds for a duty to vote well or not vote…
Posts filed under Robert Nozick
October 02, 2012
Reflections on Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was published almost forty years ago – the first and still most widely known book in academic philosophy to take libertarian thought seriously. How have…
June 07, 2012
Reading The Ethics of Liberty, Part 1 – Hoppe’s Introduction
I. Rothbard vs. Nozick Hoppe’s lengthy introduction to the 1998 edition of The Ethics of Liberty begins by describing the book as Rothbard’s second magnum opus, the first being Man,…
April 23, 2012
Natural Rights and Natural Stuff
Since there are many different sorts of approaches to libertarianism – including many different sorts of moral approaches – there are many different sorts of routes to the topic of…
April 10, 2012
Occupy the Mind — Nozick Edition. It ain’t ideology, it’s institutional analysis
On p. 272 of Anarchy, State and Utopia, Nozick writes the following: Economically well-off persons desire greater political power, in a nonminimal state, because they can sue this power to…
April 09, 2012
Modern Libertarianism — Robert Nozick Process Theorist
Today we will be discussing the contributions of Robert Nozick to modern social philosophy and political economy. It is my impression, perhaps wrong, that most philosophers and political theorists focus…