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" "Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
Robert Nozick (16 November 1938 – 23 January 2002) was an American libertarian philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University.
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в моральном
плане ни одна жизнь не перевешивает другие так, чтобы можно было достичь увеличения
суммарного общественного блага. Нет оправданий, позволяющих пожертвовать одним человеком
ради других. Эта центральная идея — а именно, что есть разные люди, живущие каждый своей
жизнью, и ни одним нельзя пожертвовать для других — не только лежит в основе существования
жестких моральных ограничений, но и, по моему мнению, порождает либертарианское
ограничение, которое запрещает агрессию против другого.
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There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics', Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations', Montaigne's 'Essays', and the essays of Samuel Johnson come to mind. Even with these, we do not simply accept everything that is said. The author's voice is never our own, exactly; the author's life is never our own. It would be disconcerting, anyway, to find that another person holds precisely our views, responds with our particular sensibility, and thinks the same things important. Still, we gain from these books, weighing and pondering ourselves in their light. These books - and also some less evidently grown-up ones, Thoreau's 'Walden' and Nietzsche's writings, for example - invite or urge us to think along with them, branching in our own directions. We are not identical with the books we read, but neither would we be the same without them.