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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Nozick"”.
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Er stighækkandi tekjuskattur siðferðilega réttlætanlegur?
… eftir fræðimennina John Locke, Robert Nozick, John Stuart Mill og John Rawls í þeim tilgangi að leitast við að svara þeirri spurningu hvort stighækkandi tekjuskattur sé siðferðilega réttlætanlegur. Stighækkandi tekjuskattur er umdeildur skattur sem leggst misjafnlega á tekjur …
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El contraste de los modelos de Estado Social de Derecho y de Estado Neoliberal en el sistema general de seguridad social en salud colombiano, a la luz de las teorías de Amartya Sen y Robert Nozick
… teorías de la justicia de Amartya Sen y Robert Nozick, respectivamente; cuya conjunción en un mismo sistema normativo e institucional explica en buena medida varios de los fenómenos de crisis estructural evidenciados.
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Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism
… The author evaluates the arguments of Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, John Hospers and Ayn Rand for the moral foundations of libertarianism and finds them to be methodologically inadequate. None is able to furnish libertarianism with the moral foundations it requires. Following the example of …
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Τα καθήκοντα των πολιτών ενός κράτους προς τους συμπολίτες και τους μη συμπολίτες στο πλαίσιο της παγκόσμιας δικαιοσύνης
… φιλοσοφία», υιοθετώντας τη θέση του Robert Nozick ότι η ηθική θέτει τα όρια της πολιτικής. Τέλος, μέσω της συστηματικής ανάλυσης της διεθνούς ορολογίας —όπως η διάκριση μεταξύ ειδικών και καθολικών καθηκόντων, θετικών και αρνητικών υποχρεώσεων, καθώς και της διανεμητικής ένστασης— η εργασία …
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Newcomb's Problem
… the problem I suggest, following Robert Nozick, that the conflict, if there be such, is between a policy of choosing a dominant act and an policy of maximizing expected utility. Both of these policies are discussed and strengthened. I then argue that if Newcomb's Problem is interpreted in …
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Why the ascriber contextualist solution to the sceptical paradox is unnecessary
… by externalists Fred Dretske (1970) and Robert Nozick (1981). By applying the semantic thesis of ascriber contextualism to epistemology, ascriber contextualists seek to emend the rejection of the closure principle made by these externalists. This rejection came from these externalists mistakenly …
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Coercion
… of the concept of coercion. In Chapter 1 R.F. Nozick's excessively refined concept of coercion is supplemented by the notion of coercion posited in this thesis. Whereas Nozick intentionally limits the notion of coercion to a reactive relation between two individuals thereby stressing the cause …
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Do Rights-Based Moralities Cause Climate Change? Balancing the Rights of Current Persons and the Needs of Future Generations
… morality akin to that put forward by Robert Nozick would enable us to implement mitigation, but the system’s disavowal of positive rights would simultaneously cause excessive harm to the wellbeing of many. The inability of rights-based moralities to deal with climate change in an effective …
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Political philosophy and private property : an evaluation of four main types of theory concerning ownership and distribution of property in a just society
… the theories of Karl Marx, G A Cohen, Robert Nozick, Michael Oakeshott, John Rawls, Alan Ryan and Ronald Dworkin and attempts conceptual analyses of "freedom", "equality", "justice" and "property". Finally, it is concluded that: 1. There is no natural right to property. 2. The form of property …
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Global Health, Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability
… Sen. Libertarian theorists such as Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, and Jan Narveson claim that justice is achieved when and only when individuals are left alone to determine their own fate. Chapter two demonstrates that positive obligations arise from negative rights posited from a …
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Disaster's Culture of Utopia after 9/11 and Katrina: Fiction, Documentary, Memorial
… have theoretical roots in the thinking of Robert Nozick and Fredric Jameson but have been rethought more recently by Bruce Robbins, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Seyla Benhabib. I read literature alongside documentaries and memorials to discover the way cultural texts model these methods of pushing back …
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A libertarian theory of property: its justification, critique and implications
… is more in accord with the positions of Robert Nozick, Milton Friedman, Friedrich v. Hayek and others, and which is closer to the spirit of Locke's Second Treatise. Welfarist libertarianism leads the dissertation through 4. Marx's critique of private property and capitalist political economy. 5. …
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Just Exchanges, Just Markets: Effective Consent Driven Proceduralism
… demands of consent and apply them to Robert Nozick's entitlement theory: Justice in Holdings. From there, I argue that the two most critical roles of the liberal state in protecting consensual market interactions, are (a) to ensure that all nonconsenting actors (e.g. children, wards, …