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Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Robert Nozick

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Total quotes: 3

“No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. But doesn’t the idea, or ideal, of the minimal state lack luster?”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

Tagged: Overcoming Conservatism , Exciting Ideas, Utopia

“Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives under different institutions.”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

Tagged: Utopia, Political Dreams

“But one cannot determine in advance which people will come up with the best ideas, and all ideas must be tried out (and not merely simulated on a computer) to see how they will work. And some ideas will come only as we are (post facto) trying to describe what patterns have evolved from the spontaneous coordination of the actions of many people.”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

Tagged: Filtering Ideas of Implementation, Theory and Praxis Notes

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