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• Principle of Fairness by Herbert Hart - Principle holds that when a number of persons engage in a just, mutually advantageous, cooperative venture accordingto rules and thus restrain their liberty in ways necessary to yield advantages for all, those who have submitted to these restrictions have a right to similaracquiescence on the part of those who have benefitted from their submission.• Acceptance of benefits is enough to bind one• Nozick believes that just because everyone else in a community may obligate themselves to doing something that may benefit everyone, that doesn't obligatethat one person who doesn't want to give up their time doing that something to do it.• He uses a scenario of a neighborhood entertainment scheme where some people in a neighborhood provide entertainment to everyone for a certainamount of days. When your day arrives, why would you be obligated to give up that one day of your time? Maybe 364 days of entertainment are not worthone day of your time.• Nozick makes the claim that at the very least for the fairness argument to be worthwhile, the benefits received from other people doing an activity mustoutweigh the cost to that one person of them doing their share.• But what if even though the benefits may outweigh the costs, there might be more benefits gained form something else?• Nozick believes enforcing the principle of fairness is objectionable as is the principle itself• Nozick asserts that one cannot give people benefits and then demand payment• Nozick also says that even if a principle of fairness could be formulated as to be not so objectionable, it would not obviate the need for other person'sconsenting to cooperate and limit their own


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Rice PHIL 307 - Notes

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