GA Cohen, Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve Liberty (1977)
(5) Nozick vs. Socialism: (1) Liberty is justice; (2) Socialism is incompatible w/ liberty [Cohen is going to agree w/ (1) and reject (2), whereas most take the tack of rejecting (2) but accepting (1)]
(7) for Nozick, 'voluntary self-enslavement' is not unjust [which has an appeal on our intuitions]
(8) key, the desires have to be somewhat sensible--the person can't be making an uninformed or coerced decision; it's disturbing if the decision is being made on false pretenses
(9) this begins to undermine the applicability of Nozick's principle to market-generated state of affairs [important, I think, also to stress the conditions under which the cdecision is being made]
(14) arguing re: change in human nature, under socialism [not the way to go]
(16) Nozick's argument prohibits any and all limitations on freedom (it's not a maximizing freedom argument). Justified via Kant
(19) Nozick: a person is not forced if all other people ar not focing [can't conceive of compulsion by circumstance]
(20) Farmer's fence and the villager example (the question, again, is whose freedom/liberty is being supported/maximized)
(21) if Z is unfree, then justice and freedom actually come apart (in other words he has to acknowledge, then, he's defending the freedom of a particular class as 'justice')
(5) Nozick vs. Socialism: (1) Liberty is justice; (2) Socialism is incompatible w/ liberty [Cohen is going to agree w/ (1) and reject (2), whereas most take the tack of rejecting (2) but accepting (1)]
(7) for Nozick, 'voluntary self-enslavement' is not unjust [which has an appeal on our intuitions]
(8) key, the desires have to be somewhat sensible--the person can't be making an uninformed or coerced decision; it's disturbing if the decision is being made on false pretenses
(9) this begins to undermine the applicability of Nozick's principle to market-generated state of affairs [important, I think, also to stress the conditions under which the cdecision is being made]
(14) arguing re: change in human nature, under socialism [not the way to go]
(16) Nozick's argument prohibits any and all limitations on freedom (it's not a maximizing freedom argument). Justified via Kant
(19) Nozick: a person is not forced if all other people ar not focing [can't conceive of compulsion by circumstance]
(20) Farmer's fence and the villager example (the question, again, is whose freedom/liberty is being supported/maximized)
(21) if Z is unfree, then justice and freedom actually come apart (in other words he has to acknowledge, then, he's defending the freedom of a particular class as 'justice')
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