PHIL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Fondren Library, Cupcake, Peter Railton
26 May 2016
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My rights impose constraints on the way you may treat me. Your rights imposes constraints on the way i may treat you. Thus you have to know how the situation came to be that way. You see that one person has a cupcake and another doesn"t. It turns out, however, that the other person had a cupcake but gobbled it up before you got there. Thus, you can"t judge a situation as a still moment in time, you must know the history of how that situation came to be. What is this view and why should we accept it: We can imagine a very simplified situation to illicit intuitions that underly what nozick thinks are the principles of justice. Let"s imagine ourselves in a state of nature. Nobody owns anything and we each have to make our own way. The resources we have are whatever we find in this state of nature. Nobody owns the woods, stones, saplings, vines, etc.
