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So what I want to do in the
first part of this lecture is
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just finish our discussion of
liberty from last time,
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beginning by saying a couple
of additional clarificatory
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things about the particular
pages from Nozick that we
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read, and then moving on to
explaining what I think is an
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important way that Nozick and
Rawls are confronting one of
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the problems that each of the
thinkers that we have
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addressed has confronted,
namely, the problem of luck in
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determining human experience.
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And when we finish that we'll
move on to the two empirical
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readings that we
did for today.
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So you'll recall that in the
pages of Nozick that we read,
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Nozick is concerned, first of
all, to present a general
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framework for thinking about
political philosophy in a
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context which prioritizes
liberty and rights.
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And, in particular, in the
pages that we read from
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chapter seven, concerned with
articulating a view about the
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legitimacy of the ownership of
property that takes as its
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principal justification
only three parts.
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The first, you recall, is
Nozick's discussion of the
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notion of justice
in acquisition.
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And we talked last time about
the conditions under which
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Nozick thinks it's legitimate
for somebody
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to come to own property.
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And the basic idea there is that
it is legitimate to take
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something from common stock that
is unowned so long as in
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so doing one doesn't
violate what Nozick
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calls the Lockean Proviso.
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That is, so long as one leaves
"as much and as good for
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And we considered two objections
to that view.
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One, the idea that there's a
kind of unzipping that occurs
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that makes even the first
acquisition illegitimate if
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the property ultimately
runs out.
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And the second based on the
problem of the commons, that
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regardless there's going to be
a time at which somebody
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appears to be disadvantaged by
another taking ownership, and
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talked about Nozick's
responses to them.
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And it's my hope that in
sections this week you'll have
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a chance to think through
whether those responses are
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We looked next at Nozick's views
on justice in transfer,
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which are basically that any
transfer that two people are
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willing to engage in is a
legitimate sort of transfer.
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It is an illegitimate
restriction on people's
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freedom, on Nozick's view, to
restrict what it is that you
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are permitted to do with
your property.
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But Nozick recognizes--
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and we didn't get to this in
our lecture on Tuesday--
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