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Single Idea 21738
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
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Full Idea
Why should we not regard land as originally collectively owned rather than, as Nozick takes for granted, owned by no one?
Gist of Idea
Maybe land was originally collectively owned, rather than unowned?
Source
comment on Robert Nozick (Anarchy,State, and Utopia [1974], p.178) by G.A. Cohen - Are Freedom and Equality Compatible? 2
Book Ref
'Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Goodin,RE/Pettit,P [Blackwell 2006], p.420
A Reaction
Did native Americans and Australians collectively own the land? Lots of peoples, I suspect, don't privately own anything, because the very concept has never occured to them (and they have no legal system).
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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