期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1997
卷号：22
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：Robert Nozick has been taken to task yet again for his entitlement theory ofjustice. Stated very roughly, Nozick's entitlement theory of justice is the following. Supposing that we have an adequate principle ofjustice in acquisition and an adequate principle ofjustice in transfer, any distribution of goods that actually results from any number of repeated iterations ofjust acquisitions and just transfers will itself be just. Any claims that the state may make for the sake of distributive justice on any of the goods we have so acquired are unjustifiable. We are entitled to our holdings absolutely.' Barbara Fried has crafted an ingenious argument against this theory by using the notion of "surplus value," which is "that portion of market price that reflects scarcity rents, whether accruing to land or other natural resources, financial capital, market opportunities, or natural talent^."^ She argues that Nozick's justice in transfer "smuggles the problem of surplus value out of the 'justice in acquisition' portion of his argument, where it rightly belongs, without ever resolving it."4 Fried does not analyze "the problem of surplus value" directly, but by comparing two examples: the fxst, a famous one of Nozick's about Wilt Chamberlain; and the second, an example of Fried's pertaining to the appreciation of land. She claims to find these two examples to be exactly analogous.
