Nozick
According to Nozick there are three sets of rules of justice, defining:
1. how things not previously possessed by anyone may be acquired;
2. how possession may be transferred from one person to another; and
3. what must be done to rectify injustices arising from violations of (1)
and (2).
A distribution is just if it has arisen in accordance with these three sets
of rules. See pp. 151-2.
Nozick does not try to specify in detail the rules under …
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property is not what would be allocated to people under a partially
egalitarian distribution. Possession would confer the kind of qualified
entitlement that exists in a system under which taxes and other conditions
are arranged to preserve certain features of the distribution, while
permitting choice, use, and exchange of property compatible with it. What
someone holds under such a system will not be his property in the
unqualified sense of Nozick's system of entitlement'.
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