PO301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Philosophical Anarchism
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Perhaps a response that bonds created in virtue of the benefits that we get from being part of the political community and these benefits are contingent upon widespread legal obeisance. Nozick"s objection that one has no choice in receiving a benefit and seems that people don"t have obligations which are actually quite strenuous just because they receive a given level of benefit - not necessarily enough. Response that no way of knowing whether that individual is lying - could be free riding, and the only way to avoid this is to compel the duty of fair play. "presumptively beneficial" idea - can be compelled to contribute to things which can be presumed to be objectively beneficial. Philosophical anarchism; supposedly endorse prudential views in favour of the state (is this not just a utilitarian sham argument) wolff - positive duty to make autonomous moral decisions ourselves, not to surrender this to the state.
