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Teorija pravde Roberta Nozika
Robert Nozick's Theory of Justice

Author(s): Ivan Janković
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Nova srpska politička misao
Keywords: justice; redistribution; entitlement; original appropriation; li­beralism;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper author analyzes some aspects of Robert Nozick's theory of justice. Starting from differentiating between the historical and end-state theo­ries of distributive justice, he explores som­e of the key elements of Nozick's li­ber­tarian theory. Nozick develops his position by cri­ti­ci­zing egalitarian premises of end-state and current time-slice theories in which the pattern of distri­bu­tion of goods and services in the society is established. Therefore, Nozick argues, if any such pa­ttern (egalitarian or not) is to be preserved arbitrary coercion over the peo­ple’s lives contiously must be exercised. Author, in this connection, spells out Nozick’s basic anti-distributionist stand­point by contrasting his entitlement theory with various forms of socialist distributive justice con­cep­tion, pointing out advantages of Nozick’s libertarian approach.

  • Issue Year: 10/2003
  • Issue No: 01+04
  • Page Range: 29-57
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Serbian