PHIL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Lockean Proviso, John Locke, Tomato Juice
26 May 2016
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Nozick has some arguments for thinking of justice in process terms instead of in state terms. If we start with a distribution of goods which we consider just because it conforms to some pattern. Whatever resources people have, they"re going to use them as they choose. As a result of the many different choices that people make, the pattern is going to be upset. That problem doesn"t arise of you simply allow people to make transactions that fall into certain parameters, because then whatever transactions people choose to make are themselves going to be just by the principles of justice of transfer. If you"re starting with a just set of holdings and people enter into willing transactions, then there is no pattern to be upset. He also takes up the suggestion that maybe we could have our cake and eat it to. But then protect the favored pattern through a process of redistributed taxation.
