PHIL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wilt Chamberlain, Distributive Justice, Individual And Group Rights
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Economic equality is not the government"s concern. (nozick) Working class deserves most of the capital because they create it. Place much less emphasis on traditional property rights. (marx) Liberals: spilt the difference between libertarians and socialists. Insist on individual rights and freedom, but attempt to constrain inequalities as much as possible. (rawls) Nozick points out that a conception of distributive justice must be historical. We can not just look at the end result. We must also look at how we got to that result. Nozick argues we are entitled to keep the things we make or naturally posses and that we are entitled to keep whatever someone gives us as a gift or in trade. Nozick offers a famous counter-example to rawls" theory of justice: suppose a society fully meets rawls" pattern of justice. (d1 is a perfectly just state. ) 2: some individuals freely choose to give some of their holdings to wilt in order to watch him.
