Nozick
OriginUSA
Era1938
SchoolPolitical
About Nozick
Anarchy, State, and Utopia is the libertarian response to Rawls. The experience machine thought experiment challenges hedonism. Argued that taxation of earnings is on par with forced labor. His later work moved away from libertarian positions. Died of stomach cancer at 64. His Wilt Chamberlain argument is famous in political philosophy.
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