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John Rawls, Conant University Professor, whose opus "A Theory of Justice" has garnered widespread praise, Robert Nozick, Porter Professor of Philosophy, and Thomas M. Scanlon, professor of philosophy, lightly sparred on the role of government in a symposium titled "The Individual Good and Political Philosophy...
Commenting on the interpretation, Rawls' younger collegue Scanlon said, "It's quite a question whether a moral argument can be carried out without reference to values...
...Though Nozick does not mention Scanlon by name," wrote a third-party philosopher, "I think it is clear from the context that he is responding to Scanlon's essay...
...article on Nozick's book, Scanlon praised Nozick for bringing economic insituations to the same philosophical level as political institutions and political liberties, but criticized him for how he did his analysis...
...does is feel to be on the same Faculty as Nozick and other "gods" of the philosophy world? "They aren't the only gods," Scanlon says. "The gods are scattered around...