In his early years Nozick was a great supporter of extreme libertarianism and in the fag end of life he considerably modified his extreme libertarianism. Political philosophers now must either work within his theory or explain why not”. Rawls’ theory of justice, Nozick cautiously maintains, “is a fountain of illuminating ideas, integrated together into a lovely whole. Rather he has showered huge accolade on the former. Though both Rawls and Nozick have developed two theories of justice it cannot be said that Nozick was in any form critical of Rawls. But Nozick developed his theory in response to Rawls’ theory and he based his theory of justice on rights. The policy makers shall pursue a scheme for the furtherance of liberty, equality and inequalities where such inequalities will benefit the least advantaged. Rawls’ theory of justice was based on liberty, equality and inequality. His Anarchy, State and Utopia created a profound influence upon the contemporary academic world of political science and political philosophy. Robert Nozick (1938-2002) was an American academic and a renowned political philosopher. After throwing light on important aspects of Rawls’ theory of justice we now embark on another theory of justice propounded by Robert Nozick in his Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974).
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