Word: nozick
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...Prize-winning Harvard professor of economics and philosophy, argued against what he called the mainstream theory of social justice in a talk at Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall yesterday. Sen argued that the transcendental theory of justice, which he attributed to philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, overlooks important aspects of justice by concentrating narrowly on what it would take to have a perfectly just society, rather than on improving existing, imperfect social structures. “Justice-enhancing changes demand comparative assessment, not any immaculate identification of the just society,” Sen said...
...Most libertarians believe that most Americans have a pretty inaccurate understanding of libertarianism. To them, the philosophy has more to do with limiting government intervention than it has to do with the protection of the devolution of rights. Instead of the intellectual descendents of Nozick, Friedman, and Hayek, many think of libertarians as ultra-conservative religious types who want absolutely no government regulation of people’s lives...
...When FAS acquired its first terabyte server in 1997, it cost over a million dollars. Today, prototype laptops have that capacity. Although recording and storage will undoubtably become cheaper over time, there is no time to lose. Had we started before, philosophy students could open video players with Robert Nozick and John Rawls and gauge their ideas in real time...
...Pellegrino University professor, Galison joins a line of storied scholars who have held the same post, including philosopher Robert Nozick and biologist Edward O. Wilson...
...should be allowed to do what they want with their lives and property, including making mutually consensual agreements with others, without having their lives or property taken away by a private actor or by the government. Some well-known philosophers, like John Locke and the late Harvard professor Robert Nozick, are deontological libertarians.Most libertarians, like the late philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek, humorist Dave Barry, journalist John Stossel, and actor Clint Eastwood, evade such easy categorization. They find value in both lines of argument for libertarianism.HLF welcomes all shades of libertarians and, more generally, all students who are interested in?...