Essays on Robert Nozick

Utilitarianism and Taxes

Taxes are an important part of most modern societies. Nevertheless, as with almost anything, one has the option of actually going through with the action or not. Some might say that not paying taxes would be acceptable, as this implies taking personal property away from one person. Nevertheless, Utilitarianists would surely agree that one should pay one’s taxes, as it would ensure that everybody’s needs are covered. According to Utilitarianists, ethics is a way to maximize the greatest amount of good among the greatest number of people, minimizing the harmful effects. Typically, taxes are not high, so ...

Philosophy

Explain the connections between pleasure, contemplation, and judgment in aesthetic appreciation. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy; it is type of quality hypothesis or axiology, which is the investigation of sensory or sensori-passionate qualities, called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is connected with the logic of art. Style is once in a while called "the investigation of magnificence". Judgments of aesthetics esteem depend on our capacity to separate at a tactile level. Aesthetics looks at what makes something wonderful, glorious, appalling, fun, adorable, senseless, enthralling, bombastic, empowering, grating, agreeable, exhausting, comical, or disastrous. Tactile separation is connected to ...

What is justice and how distributive justice may be defined? Which holdings and which acts should be considered as just ones and which ones should be seen as unjust? What is a just society and how justice correlates with equality and liberty? Two great American philosophers – John Rawls and Robert Nozick - tried to give answers to all these and many other similar questions in their well-known theories on distributive justice. Meanwhile, despite of the same subject two philosophers have quite different views on what is just and what is unjust in a society. Robert Nozick, the author of ...

The concept of equality comes in the picture when the debate about human worth and human rights is initiated. Equality champions often come up with mottos that claim that all human beings are equal and therefore they deserve equal treatment. On the other hand, counters of equality claim the equality is the enemy of incentive and creativity. Given the two notions, we wonder what is meant by equality. Equality is a term that indicates a quantitative relationship. It indicates connection between a group of different persons with similar qualities in at least one aspect and corresponds itself in all its features. The ...