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Pop Matters, March 21, 2012
...a success. In particular, an essay by Michael Rennett compares the philosophies of choice of George Berkeley and Robert Nozick before throwing Inception into the mix, and asking whether humans would want to live in reality or a fantasy world of their own...
Psychology Today, March 19, 2012
...s evisceration, at the end of The Ethics, of the views of Isaiah Berlin, F.A. Hayek and Robert Nozick. Probably, if I were to be accurate, I would mention three or four others of Murray's books in my top ten. But, I am nothing if not a...
Power Line, March 14, 2012
...be John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice (unquestionably the ur -text of modern liberal thought), and Robert Nozick, who answered Rawls impressively in Anarchy, State, Utopia . Nozick’s reply is very high-toned libertarianism, and as such might...
Livemint.com, January 12, 2012
...a loser As 2012 kicks in, it is time to think of resolutions to make and keep. Philosopher Robert Nozick called it “The Examined Life”. After examining mine, I came up with three goals: to be more disciplined; to remember not to forget; and to become...
EconomicPrincipals.com, December 4, 2011
...as young men, we read him in the 1970s. We felt the same way about the Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick. With the passage of time, though, nineteenth century liberalism has seemed, by itself, a less and less adequate framework with which to deal...
Washington Post, November 11, 2011
...spending a lot of his time teaching freshman physics?” Probably not, Summers said. Philosophers John Rawls and and Robert Nozick got time off from teaching to write books, some of which I read as a philosophy major at Wesleyan University. Those books...
LewRockwell.com, November 4, 2011
...mentioned others getting on the reading list include, P. J. O'Rourke, Milton Friedman, Matt Ridley, Richard Epstein, Robert Nozick, John Locke. There's an essay section that includes writings of, you guessed it, many by David Boaz. In addition, essays by...
Forbes.com, March 2, 2012
...to reflect on what lessons we can learn from Wilt Chamberlain, the political philosopher. In 1974, Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick wrote the highly influential work Anarchy, State & Utopia. In it, Professor Nozick argued that only a government with...
ASU Web Devil, February 27, 2012
...another. Although the parties may say they are different, the American people are left with the same result. Robert Nozick, an American political philosopher in the 1970s and 1980s, wrote “ The Tale of the Slave ,” which goes through a sequence of...
American Thinker, February 23, 2012
...one; it's that simple. Two important philosophers who argued convincingly for limited government, John Stuart Mill and Robert Nozick, would have agreed in a heartbeat that the legislation is a clear example of despotic government. What more can one ask...
Examiner.com, February 18, 2012
...with an owner's right to do as he or she pleases with his or her property. As Robert Nozick stated in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, the sense of the argument is along these lines: equal opportunity rules regarding, for example, a company's...
Zimbio, February 15, 2012
...people throughout society , across economic strata, are always going to lose freedom and liberty—it is unavoidable. In 1974 Robert Nozick called it the “Wilt Chamberlain Effect." See "Anarchy, State and Utopia" by Robert Nozick . The “Wilt...
Zimbio, February 15, 2012
...people throughout society , across economic strata, are always going to lose freedom and liberty—it is unavoidable. In 1974 Robert Nozick called it the “Wilt Chamberlain Effect." See "Anarchy, State and Utopia" by Robert Nozick . The “Wilt...
Global Research, February 14, 2012
...sets the liberal agenda. Defence of Lockian private property with no limit is the opposed right-wing agenda of Robert Nozick. For over 40 years these much elaborated impressions have ruled official political philosophy across the English-speaking world....
