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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNJUST INITIAL ACQUISITION

✍ Scribed by Feser, Edward

Book ID: 115483857
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 146 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0265-0525
DOI: 10.1017/s0265052505041038

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Critics of Robert Nozick's libertarian political theory often allege
that the theory in general and its account of property rights in particular
lack sufficient foundations. A key difficulty is thought to lie in his
account of how portions of the world which no one yet owns can justly come
to be initially acquired. But the difficulty is illusory, because (contrary
to what both Nozick and his critics assume) the concept of justice does not
meaningfully apply to initial acquisition in the first place. Moreover, the
principle of self-ownership provides a solid foundation for Nozick's
libertarianism, and when seen in the light of that principle and its full
implications, the standard purported examples of injustices in acquisition
are revealed to be nothing of the kind.

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