PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert Nozick, Categorical Imperative, Neighborhood Watch
7 Nov 2016
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Individuals have rights and which people included the sate cant take away from you. Influenced by john locke and the social contract. Does not want divine power in us. Wants a new social contract to stop at some level below that of the state. Attacking the concept for granted in the us i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y philosophe(cid:396) i(cid:373)(cid:373)a(cid:374)uel ka(cid:374)t"s idea of the (cid:272)atego(cid:396)i(cid:272)al i(cid:373)pe(cid:396)ati(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d political view that the individual is an end, not a means to an end. After seeing anarchism is the way to go for happiness, he states a state should be made for moral prohibition. Does(cid:374)"t go agai(cid:374)st utilita(cid:396)ia(cid:374)is(cid:373) (cid:271)ut (cid:396)athe(cid:396) ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)ass happi(cid:374)ess. Mutual protection societies, composed of individual clients, that would subsume many functions of the state. These associations would negotiate with one another in the event of a dispute, and they would provide compensation for disadvantaging individuals by their actions or for prohibiting individual activities that might involve risk.
