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Robert Nozick knew how to separate a normative claim which stated liberty is the fundamental value should be maximized from an empirical claim that most efficient method for assigning goods and services is a market economy. Everyone should be free to pursue freedom in order to have pure belief, Nozick let nothing stand in his way. Is it okay to tax the wealthy in order to the unfortunate? Absolutely not. Is some redistribution necessary on the basis of need?

Robert Nozick was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938, he died in January 2002 was an only child in his family. Prior to his death he was teaching at Harvard University for two years, Princeton for three years and Rockefeller University for two years. In 1960’s he wrote his thesis paper on choice theory while attending graduate school at Princeton where he received his Ph. D degree in philosophy. At the age of thirty he was the youngest professors to teach for Harvard. When Nozick was attending high school and in his college years he was a participant of the New Left socialist group. While attending graduate school Nozick was very interested in libertarian works so he started reading books and he started to see a change of his political views. In 1974 he published Anarchy, State and Utopia, the book was mainly focused on libertarian minimal state (Duignan, 2014).

Nozick’s main purpose of Anarchy, State and Utopia was to show that minimal state is ethically justified. Nozick described minimal state as a “night watchman” as long as the government control is limited and there is protection provided for the people against violent acts, robbery or burglary and scams. (Duignan, 2014). Nozick believes minimal state is acceptable, he pursues to discredit contemporary metho...

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...dividual worked 5 hours, but at the end their pay check equals to three hours work of wages, so those two hours that the individual worked was involuntary for someone else’s benefit (Duignan, 2014).

In conclusion, Robert Nozick main purpose of his studies was to better comprehend the circumstances individuals find themselves in when government doesn’t control the society. He began with a state of nature, he wanted to know if there are any approaches to well-organized justice that would be included in the state of nature. His end result would have resulted in a foundation of a sate regardless if others didn’t want it. This was knows as an invisible hand, he wanted individuals to follow their improvements when it came to their conditions, which could eventually conclude a minimal state. If this method was used no violations would harm people’s property rights.