Comments And Analysis On Nozick Political Theory

During the development of contemporary western political thought, Rawls and Nozick were the most influenced political philosophers. In1971, Rawls’Theory of Justice triggered a hot discussion among many political philosophers and Nozick was the most famous one. He strongly criticized Rawls’Theory in his book of Anarchy、State and Utopia. Nozick’s political philosophy was the representative of the neo-classical liberalism and he believed that the so called "justice" meant rights, and rights were sacrosanctThis article is divided into five parts to analyze and interpret Nozick’s political philosophy.Part one Introduction to Nozick’s life and academic attainments. Through his life experience, we got to know his proposed life, historical background and why did he developed such a philosophy.Part two introduced Nozick in the different periods of political thought development. He initially transformed from left-wing supporters gradually into liberals finally became a first liberals, during which Nozick was influenced by Rock’s view of natural right and property and also became its inheritance. He was also affected by the Kantian’s deontologist, and was more in deontological norms within "moral side constraints" range.In the third part, Nozick’s political philosophy is divided into three parts:"supremacy of liberalism","a minimal state" and "justice in holdings of.Firstly, the supremacy of liberalism’s main line is Nozick’s political philosophy, which is based on the individual rights of supreme.Individual rights, including the right to life, liberty and property.Any group or government has the right to force personal due to social, national interests to make any sacrifice.Secondly, it analyses the base, core concept and producing process of his "a minimal state" theory, whose content deeply explains how Nozick resolutely defend the rights of the individual by regulating and weakening the functions of state and government. Those rights include kinds of specific individual rights, especially the right to life, liberty and property. Nozick puts forward that right is the limit of moral constraint, rather than direct pursuit behavior objective. You have to obey the right moral constraint, but you can’t take it as a goal to pursue. Therefore, with the right theory as the foundation, Nozick puts forward "a minimal state" theory, namely, solve three problems:Firstly, against anarchism, proved "a minimal state" is the result of ethical, without violating anyone’s rights. Secondly, that "a minimal state" is the most functional state, any countries more than its functions are immoral, and would be a violation of human rights. Thirdly, that "a minimal state" is also a utopian, it has a bright prospects.Thirdly, it elaborates Nozick’s theory of "holding justice" three views and compared with Rawls, Dworkin’s concept of justice. His justice consist of three proposition:1、Acquire the principle of justice, that holds in the initial access, or access to waif.2, the transfer of the justice principles, namely holding from one person to another’s transfer.3, do not hold the correction principle of justice, namely to initially holding and transfer of unjust correction. If a person on their holdings of conforming to the three principles of justice, he has the right of the holder.In the fourth part, objective analysis of Nozick’s political philosophy in the theory of rationality and limitation, in practice the effectiveness and limitations. In theory, Nozick resolutely safeguard individual rights supreme, based on individual rights as the main body to build the country. He emphasized the individual entities play, against Rawls put forward talent difference need allocation to achieve social justice. However, he is too absolute individual rights, ignoring the people’s role in society and will be of interest. In practice, Nozick’s personal rights first point to awaken people to self-awareness of right protection, market economy needs national reduction of excessive intervention, the protection of personal freedom competition, which complies with the development of the times. However, Nozick ignored the value of equality is important in society, the individual and society from the, many times to solve the contradictions of social entity, this will cause social unrest.In the fifth part, the Nozick thought of political philosophy on the development of our country socialism of the three revelations. First of all, to awaken our citizens consciousness of individual rights, the national attention to the rights of the individual. Secondly, the state power and functions cannot be infinitely expanded, need to change government function, form a "small government, big society" mode structure. Finally, to improve China’s social justice. According to the "three principles of justice in holdings", protect personal due income and property; promote fair competition, building a harmonious society.