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To: TimF who wrote (20702)	3/5/2002 10:07:17 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

On Nozick, Tim Here's an Amazon link to his classic work, Anarchy, State and Utopia. It includes some reviews by readers which summarize his work nicely. amazon.com Here's just a taste of the book from an excited Amazon reviewer. You can see it's a LindyBill kind of book: Nozick begins by defending the existence of the State against anarcho-individualists, but ends up putting forward a thesis that is highly sympathetic with libertarian themes. For Nozick, individuals in the state of nature create government in order to ensure a basic order to the conducting of everyday life (it is this idea that makes his work so pertinent to the debates between Lockean and Hobbesian theory), but he goes on to argue that when the State takes on a life of its own and begins to engage in liberal programs like economic re-distribution, it has overstepped its boundaries. Private property and individual rights enjoy considerable sanctity in Nozick's thought, and Nozick considers involuntary economic re-distribution to be in a way a type of forced labor. Nozick's work is thus very relevant to the discussion of distributive justice in Rawls.