John Rawls and Robert Nozick are both notable contributors.
On the libertarian right, Nozick focused on maximizing individual freedom.
Two years later, in Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick effectively denied any obligation to aid others.
To Nozick, any voluntary exchange must be allowed, and
no social pattern could be noble enough to justify maintenance by coercion.
Nozick also believes that if pleasure were the only intrinsic value, people would
have an overriding reason to be hooked up to an"experience machine," which would produce favourable sensations.
Nozick also believes that if pleasure were the only intrinsic value, people would
have an overriding reason to be hooked up to an"experience machine," which would produce favorable sensations.
The two dominant political thinkers, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, are usually seen as stark opposites: on the
egalitarian left, Rawls was concerned with questions of fairness and distribution;