"It's the level that allows us each to……" — 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."
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32 Quotes by Robert Nozick
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Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it…
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Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I…
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And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give…
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There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
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Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
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Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.
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What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
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The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
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The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to…
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What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested…
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It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that…
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