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Single Idea 18642
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
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Full Idea
Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do.
Gist of Idea
Individual rights are so strong that the state and its officials must be very limited in power
Source
Robert Nozick (Anarchy,State, and Utopia [1974], Pref)
Book Ref
Nozick,Robert: 'Anarchy,State, and Utopia' [Blackwell 1980], p.-8
A Reaction
This claim appears to be an axiom, but I'm not sure that the notion of 'rights' make any sense unless someone is granting the rights, where the someone is either a strong individual, or the community (perhaps represented by the state).
The
14 ideas
from 'Anarchy,State, and Utopia'
18641
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If people hold things legitimately, just distribution is simply the result of free exchanges
[Nozick, by Kymlicka]
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20539
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Property is legitimate by initial acquisition, voluntary transfer, or rectification of injustice
[Nozick, by Swift]
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18645
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Nozick assumes initial holdings include property rights, but we can challenge that
[Kymlicka on Nozick]
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18646
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How did the private property get started? If violence was involved, we can redistribute it
[Kymlicka on Nozick]
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18648
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Freedom to live according to our own conception of the good is the ultimate value
[Nozick, by Kymlicka]
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18647
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If property is only initially acquired by denying the rights of others, Nozick can't get started
[Kymlicka on Nozick]
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18643
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A minimal state should protect, but a state forcing us to do more is unjustified
[Nozick]
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18642
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Individual rights are so strong that the state and its officials must be very limited in power
[Nozick]
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18644
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States can't enforce mutual aid on citizens, or interfere for their own good
[Nozick]
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20585
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If an experience machine gives you any experience you want, should you hook up for life?
[Nozick]
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20521
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Can I come to own the sea, by mixing my private tomato juice with it?
[Nozick]
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21737
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Unowned things may be permanently acquired, if it doesn't worsen the position of other people
[Nozick]
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21738
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Maybe land was originally collectively owned, rather than unowned?
[Cohen,GA on Nozick]
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22661
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My Anarchy, State and Utopia neglected our formal social ties and concerns
[Nozick on Nozick]
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