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Robert Nozick - Entitlement Theory

 
 
dogtanian
21:43 / 05.06.05
his "entitlement theory" - can anyone summarise this neatly for me? i've been studying it among other theses (Rawls, Dworkin, Frankfurt, Mill) over the course of this year and i just don't understand it at all - can anyone help by maybe giving some short sharp points that clarify his ideas? i may well be somewhat over due, as i have an exam tomorrow, but it's the one part of the course i just can't get and i know i will be asked about it. many thanks!
 
 
astrojax69
01:16 / 06.06.05
help may be here and here?

i did nozick in a truth class one semester - he was all we fucking did... grrrrr hate hate hate. crap lecturuer. i've deliberatley unconsciously forgotten everything now.

do you like nozick?
 
 
alejandrodelloco
02:19 / 06.06.05
I like how he illustrates it with mathematical formulas.

It is fairly simple how his theory works: Since you own your body, unless you guarantee the products of your labor or your labor to someone else (ie employment), they are yours and yours alone to do with as you please. See also the whole Wilt Chamberlain thang. For Nozick, Fair and Just are not necessarily synonyms. Fair is only Just if everyone decides to be Fair.
 
 
dogtanian
12:34 / 06.06.05
ah thanks for your replies. i just about began to grasp it but in the exam i opted to write about rawls instead, which is much easier.

again, though, i don't think it's necessarily that rawls is easier, just that i prefer his line of thought, and i agree with more of it, which i think tends to make certain philosophers easier. i find that reading the theses of one i disagree with or find too heavy going, i tend to have more trouble getting to grips with it to any decent level.

but anyway, exam is OVER! hurrah! 2 down, 1 to go
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
21:56 / 06.06.05
Skipped a few classes, huh?
 
 
dogtanian
16:01 / 07.06.05
no, not really. i was ill for a few but i was there for the nozick classes but didn't get them at all.

anyway, all done now!!
 
  
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