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How Libertarianism Opposes Coercive Capitalism: A Reply to Silver

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2009

Brian Zamulinski
Affiliation:
Kainan University, Taiwan

Abstract

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Intervention/Discussion
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 2008

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References

Notes

1 Zamulinski, Brian, “Nozick's Anachronistic Libertarianism,” Dialogue, 44 (2005): 211–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Silver, Zachary, “Worse Off How? Why the World Does Not Owe You a Living,” Dialogue, 46 (2007): 369–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), p. 180.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., p. 33.

5 Ibid., p. 182.

6 At this point, it seems likely that Silver would protest that this is not what Nozick says. Indeed, it is not; but Nozick is a philosopher, not a prophet, and one can accept his principles without uncritically accepting his inferences. I believe that Nozick is wrong about what our labour gets us in terms of property.