Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wilt Chamberlain, Robert Nozick
15 Aug 2016
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What justice is about: rawls: principles we would agree to if we didn"t know the results of the natural and social lotteries, nozick: respecting self-ownership rights & private property rights rights, thereby limiting state interference. 3 ways to legitimately come to own things: initial acquisition, voluntary transfer, rectification of injustice. Nozick"s entitlement theory: historical, not end state, rejected patterned principle like need, ability, or desert, nozick: historical & unpatterned principles. The wilt chamberlain argument: distribution @ time 1 is just (everyone accepts it, all steps from distribution 1 to distribution 2 are voluntary (voluntary transfers preserve justice, therefore, d2 is just, liberty upsets patterns. Rawls: it is morally arbitrary that we possess particular talents (intelligence, strength) so it"s unfair to let luck determine life prospects. Swift: we own ourselves fully (example: our body parts) but we don"t own the things we produce in the same way. Both nozick and rawls reject desert (getting what you think you deserve)
