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Eric Roark

Nozick’s Failed Defense of the Just State

Journal of Libertarian Studies

Author: Eric Roark

Online Publish Date: July 30, 2014

Category: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Big Government

In this paper, I argue that Nozick fails to adequately defend the claim that a just state would arise from a Lockean state of nature by a process which need not violate libertarian rights. In particular, I argue that the state-creating processes cited by Nozick are antithetical to the enforcement rights (those rights such as self-defense and the

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