Robert Nozick
American philosopher (1938 to 2002); author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974).
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Taxing earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.
archive.orgSaid c. 1974This on korrents
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Taxing earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
Seizing the results of someone's labor is like seizing hours of their life
Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
A socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
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Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just
Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
The state may not coerce some citizens to aid others, or restrict people for their own good
Two noteworthy implications are that the state may not use its coercive apparatus for the purpose of getting some citizens to aid others, or in order to prohibit activities to people for their own good or protection.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
Individuals are inviolable
Individuals are inviolable.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
Things come into the world already attached to people with entitlements over them
Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
The experience machine shows that something besides experience matters to us
We learn that something matters to us in addition to experience by imagining an experience machine and then realizing that we would not use it.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell reprint of the 1974 edition) Said c. 1974
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