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Robert Nozick: Objective World
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A more adequate theory of justice would in Nozick's view enumerate three principles of justice in holdings. The first would be a principle of justice in acquisition, that is, the appropriation of natural resources that no one has ever owned before. The best-known such principle, some version of which Nozick seems to endorse, is the one enshrined in Locke's theory of property, according to which a person (being a self-owner) owns his labor, and by "mixing his labor" with a previously unowned part of the natural world (e.g. by whittling a stick found in a forest into a spear) thereby comes to own it. The second principle would be a principle of justice in transfer, governing the manner in which one might justly come to own something previously owned by another. Here Nozick endorses the principle that a transfer of holdings is just if and only if it is voluntary, a principle that would seem to follow from respect for a person's right to use the fruits of the exercise of his self-owned talents, abilities, and labor as he sees fit. The final principle would be a principle of justice in rectification, governing the proper means of setting right past injustices in acquisition and transfer.
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Nozick begins to explore egalitarian theories by considering a partitioning of the world into a state of nothingness and many states which are ways for there to be something. Assuming equal probability for each state and randomness about which obtains, it is simply very likely that there is something. However he moves on because this application of the principle of indifference from probability theory assumes that the natural state for a possibility is nonrealization and that being realized has to be explained by special factors (such as random factors in this case). One way to reach a fully egalitarian theory is to maintain the fecundity principle that all possibilities are realized.
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Living in Nozick's world... isn't all slam-dunks and laugh tracks. As Brad and Jennifer hit the town to celebrate her big raise, Ken Lay, the former CEO of Enron, was taking the fifth before Congress. And Enrongate has a lot to do with what Nozick left out of his thought-experiment, what happens after wealth becomes highly concentrated in the hands of a select few. If the Stilt were to rise head and shoulders above the rest of us in wealth as he already does in height, he could pay someone to chauffeur his lady friends around, hire someone else to cook his dinner, maybe even bribe a congressman to vote for the sort of laws he likes. Money, remember, is power, and power corrupts.
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