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Examine the entitlement theory of justice.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • Justice

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Robert Nozick's entitlement theory, set out in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), is the libertarian reply to John Rawls. Justice depends on how holdings came about, not on the pattern they form; if people hold what they hold by just means, the state has no title to redistribute it.

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