Comments on: Robert Nozick’s Framework For Utopia

By: Robert Nozick’s Utopia: Beyond Side Constraints and Rights « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:02:56 +0000

[...] as I wrote here a few years ago: You can earn yourself a PhD writing on Anarchy and State, but not Utopia, getting [...]

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By: The Framework is Libertarian, But Any Community Within It Need Not Be « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:14:27 +0000

[...] I introduced Nozick’s utopian thought experiment. It’s a fanciful tale in which you have to power to act like Nightcrawler: in the event you [...]

By: Mike Gibson

Mike Gibson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:19:51 +0000

Thanks Michael. Good call, ,too. There’s no reason to think value pluralism doesn’t hold across a lifetime as well. Strangely, I think Bryan Caplan’s recent posts on monogamy apply here!

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/09/monogamy_and_he.html

By: Michael Strong

Michael Strong — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:11:24 +0000

Fabulous and highly needed post, Mike. I have long been shocked and disappointed by the neglect of Nozick’s Utopia of Utopias, and when people like Olivier ask me for more references on it, it is hardly the case that the last third of Nozick’s book is an easy or convenient summary.

Going in another direction, it has also occurred to me that if we actually had a Utopia of Utopias, rather than decide that “my values” dictate that I should live in one, I might very much like to sample several, or many, of them over the course of a lifetime. Why can’t we be pluralists even with respect to the “ideal worlds” in which we might want to live?

And great links associated with this article as well!