Political Science 1020E Lecture 4: Social Justice 2 - Leture 4
12 Feb 2019
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Rawls: principles we would agree to if we didn"t know the results of the natural and social lotteries. Nozick: respecting self-ownership rights and private property rights thereby limiting state interference: redistribution state is insane, compatible with massive inequalities, state should be legitimate but limited: night-watchman state . Three ways to legitimately come to own things: initial acquisition, voluntary transfer, rectification of injustice, i. e. compensation for coercive transfers, kind of irrational as violence created the state and the state has monopoly of legitimate violence. Nozick"s entitlement theory: historical, not end-state view of justice, reject patterened principles of justice, like need, ability, or desert, e. g. reject distribution according to need, distribution need not fit a pattern. From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen . According to nozick, if all transfers were voluntary, then yes. Rawls: it is morally arbitrary that we possess particular talents (e. g. intelligence, strength), so it"s unfair to let luck determine life prospects.
