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Robert Nozick
American
Philosopher
Born:
Nov 16
,
1938
Died:
Jan 23
,
2002
About
Good
Life
Own
People
Try
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Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
Robert Nozick
Survival
Better
Those
Evolutionary
Able
Various
Through
Sort
Process
Reproduction
Social
Engage
Who
Cooperation
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
Science
Think
Too
Philosophers
Philosophy
Way
About
Data
Having
Hypotheses
Between
Empirical
Read
Scientists
Continuity
Account
Might
Theoretical
Theories
Things
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
Depression
Crime
Somebody
Seen
Drive
Philosophical
Trial
Guilty
Would
Finds
Some
Parent
Examples
Proved
Child
Maybe
Being
Where
Literature
Suicidal
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
You
Try
Old
Job
Wrinkles
Think
Guess
Some
Something
Tendency
Idea
Combined
New
Major
Piece
Maybe
Essentially
Different
Then
Coherent
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
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives.
Robert Nozick
Good
People
Sacrifice
Own
Some
Only
Entity
Individual
Different
Social
Lives
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
People
Reward
Valuable
Value
Society
Distribution
Highest
Feel
Merit
Most
Principle
Does
His
Accordance
According
Intellectuals
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Should
Each
Satisfy
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
The major public goals in my life are intellectual goals. There are various philosophical things that I want to work on and work out.
Robert Nozick
Life
Work
Goals
My Life
Philosophical
Out
Various
Major
Intellectual
Want
Public
Work Out
Things
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