5.3.5 Conservative Key Thinkers - Robert Nozick WIP Flashcards
What was Nozick’s political stance?
Right Wing Libertarian
What book did Nozick write?
Anarchy, the State and Utopia
What was Nozick’s view on the state?
He supported a minimal state which is a state with limited power over the actions of individuals.
What was Nozick’s view on taxes?
Nozick opposed taxes, calling them “legalised theft” - and therefore economic redistribution and social justice is theft of individual private property.
As a result, Nozick objected to the welfare state.
What was Nozick’s view on the economy?
Nozick supported free-market capitalism and believed that the way goods are distributed in the free market is just.
What was Nozick’s view on state intervention?
Opposed it being used to distribute resources in a more just way he believed that if the state had control over justice, resources would be given to groups that are important to win elections, such as the elderly cough The Tories with the elderly cough and Labour with students cough
What was Nozicks view on private ownership?
Believed in the idea of individual sovereignty - Nozick considered the right of the individual for ownership over their own person to be a vital part of being human.
Nozick believed that if the state had control over individuals, individuals will be reduced to having to work for a common goal rather than individual self-determination.
Instead, he believed that individuals should own their bodies and abilities.
