77 COLLECTIVE ASSETS - Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick - dignitàdellapersona
Rawls’ view seems to be that everyone has some entitlement or claim on the totality of natural assets (viewed as a pool),Read more at location 4477
Some will complain, echoing Rawls against utilitarianism,45 that this “does not take seriously the distinction between persons”;Read more at location 4486
Whether any coherent conception of a person remains when the distinction is so pressed is an open question.Read more at location 4490
In a free society, people’s talents do benefit others, and not only themselves. Is it the extraction of even more benefit to others that is supposed to justify treating people’s natural assets as a collective resource? What justifies this extraction?Read more at location 4495
If people’s assets and talents couldn’t be harnessed to serve others, would something be done to remove these exceptional assets and talents, or to forbid them from being exercised for the person’s own benefit or that of someone else he chose, even though this limitation wouldn’t improve the absolute position of those somehow unable to harness the talents and abilities of others for their own benefit?Read more at location 4502
Is it so implausible to claim that envy underlies this conception of justice, forming part of its root notion?Read more at location 4505
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