76bisTHE NEGATIVE ARGUMENT - Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

 76bisTHE NEGATIVE ARGUMENT - Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick - dirittoemerito larazionalitàdeifantasmi

THE NEGATIVE ARGUMENTRead more at location 4409

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we describe people as entitled to their natural assets even if it’s not the case that they can be said to deserve them,Read more at location 4437

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with “are entitled to” replacing “deserve”Read more at location 4438

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Whether or not people’s natural assets are arbitrary from a moral point of view, they are entitled to them, and to what flows from them.Read more at location 4447

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Presumably the underlying principle would be that if any particular features are arbitrary from a moral point of view, then persons in the original position should not know they possess them. But this would exclude their knowing anything about themselves,Read more at location 4460

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Perhaps we are too quick when we suggest excluding knowledge of rationality, and so forth, merely because these features arise from morally arbitrary facts.Read more at location 4467

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Here we see an ambiguity in saying that a fact is arbitrary from a moral point of view. It might mean that there is no moral reason why the fact ought to be that way, or it might mean that the fact’s being that way is of no moral significance and has no moral consequences. Rationality, the ability to make choices, and so on, are not morally arbitrary in this second sense.Read more at location 4469

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