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- Following the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke, Nozick assumes that everyone possesses the natural rights to life, liberty, and property, including the right to claim as property the fruits or products of one’s labour and the right to dispose of one’s property as one sees fit (provided that in doing so one does not violate the rights of anyone else).
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Nov 10, 2015 · In chapter six of his 1981 book, Philosophical Explanations, Nozick addresses the question of the meaning of life. “The question of what meaning our life has, or can have, is of utmost significance to us.”
Jun 22, 2014 · 1. Nozick’s Life and Times. Robert Nozick was born in Brooklyn in 1938 to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. He earned an undergraduate Philosophy degree from Columbia University in 1959 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1963.
Life. Robert Nozick was born of Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York in 1938 and died in 2002 of stomach cancer. He was a philosopher of wide-ranging interests who worked in metaphysics, epistemology, decision theory, political philosophy, and value theory more generally.
Objective meaningfulness, when not just causal significance (“Those clouds mean rain”), one of Nozick's eight senses, is a problematic notion. What would count as life's having such a meaning? Some look to God's purpose in creating us.
- A. R. Lacey
- 2001
In his 1997 introduction to Socratic Puzzles, Nozick says that in The Examined Life he had “express[ed] reservations about some of the views in Anarchy, State, and Utopia” (2, emphasis added).
In The Examined Life (1989), Nozick presented the EMTE as follows: Imagine a machine that could give you any experience (or sequence of experiences) you might desire. When connected to this experience machine, you can have the experience of writing a great poem or bringing about world peace or loving someone and being loved in return.
1. Life. Robert Nozick was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938, and he taught at Harvard University until his death in January 2002.
