14 Robert Nozick Quotes for You to Enjoy

Robert Nozick

American Philosopher

Born: Nov 16, 1938

Died: Jan 23, 2002

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Related authors: Allan Bloom Deepak Chopra George Herbert Mead John Dewey Judith Butler Lysander Spooner Robert M. Pirsig William James

There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him for the sake of others. Talk of an overall social good covers this up. Robert Nozick

Good People Benefits Own Nothing Others Benefit Something More Only Individual Overall Talk Him Sake Covers Up Done Different Happens Social Uses Using Lives

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. Robert Nozick

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. Robert Nozick

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece. Robert Nozick

It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't. Robert Nozick

Try Own Live Everyone Our Primary Importance How Account Us Notice Agree Each Chosen Lives Level

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. Robert Nozick

Future Will Degree Past Statement Has-Been About Hypothesis Simply How Tested Been Historical Up Hold In The Past Prediction Describing

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. Robert Nozick

Choose Each Chosen

Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.' Robert Nozick

Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus. Robert Nozick

Entitlement Sense System Betrayed Superiority Only Unsuccessful Intellectuals Same Against Workers Capitalist Produces Businessmen

What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before. Robert Nozick

Life Saying Before Libertarian Examined Had Longer Been Really Hardcore

Faith is caused by an encounter with something very real but which has extraordinary qualities which intimate the divine; the belief is due to an encounter which specially mirrors some divine quality. Robert Nozick

Faith Quality Extraordinary Intimate Some Something Mirrors Divine Qualities Real Due Caused Encounter Very Which Belief

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