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Harvard University Professor Robert Nozick, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers, died on the morning of Jan. 23rd 2002 at the age of 63. He had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1994. His first book,
"Anarchy, State, and Utopia" (1974) transformed him into the reluctant
theoretician of a national political movement and and a popular star of
philosophy. He wrote it as a
critique of "Theory of Justice" (1971) by his Harvard colleague John
Rawls. Rawls had provided a philosophical underpinning for the bureaucratic
welfare state, a reasoned argument for why it was right for the state to
redistribute wealth in order to help the poor and disadvantaged. Nozick argued that the
rights of the individual are primary and that nothing more than a minimal state
- sufficient to protect against violence and theft, and to ensure the
enforcement of contracts - is justified. "Anarchy, State, and Utopia"
won the National Book Award and was named by The Times Literary Supplement as
one of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War." A former member of the
radical left who was converted to a libertarian perspective as a graduate
student, largely through his reading of conservative economists Friedrich Hayek
and Milton Friedman, Nozick was never comfortable with his putative status as an
ideologue of the right. Whatever people thought
about his opinions readers loved his lively, accessible writing style and his
vivid thought experiments. Few people can have been unchanged by reading
him. click here for a review of Anarchy State and Utopia |
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