Self-ownership, Libertarian Rights and Kantian Autonomy: Does Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia have a Kantian Foundation?
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Nozick, libertarianism, self-ownership, Kant, natural law.Abstract
In Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick holds that moral side constraints reflects the underlying Kantian’s principle that individuals are ends and not merely means. He also points out that these moral side constraints lead to the libertarian natural rights. In this paper I will analyze the alleged Kantian foundation of Nozick’s political philosophy and the conceptual relationship between kantian’s conception of dignity and self-ownership principle, which is widely accepted as the last foundation of Nozick’s theory of justice. I will conclude that, despite certain similarities, self-ownership and kantian’s conception of dignity are conceptually incompatible. Likewise, I will conclude that the concept of self-ownership is a key element in the understanding of Nozick’s libertarianism and, therefore, as an exegetic tool of it, it should be preferred over the kantian’s concept of dignity.
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