PO301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Political Philosophy, Historical Fiction
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Land acquisition and resource acquisition is to some extent a necessarily zero- sum game. It is a historical fiction and simply does not exist in the real world; this process of communication and compensation never happened. For nozick this must therefore make the entire distribution of resources in the status quo unjust - but his mechanism of rectifying these injustices is to return the resources. This is just infeasible - imagine turning the eastern seaboard of the usa back over to native. Conception of powers as totally yours is incoherent because they can"t be yours before they"ve developed, and it"s impossible to develop them completely by yourself. (papoiannu) Didn"t just write abstract political philosophy, engaged in public debate. Thought that judges had an obligation to think about legal issues with a sense of morality - argued that best interpretation of constitutional principles required judges to engage in moral and political philosophy.
