A Theory Of Justice By John Rawls Analysis

3.3. Robert Nozick on John Rawls.
The publication of A Theory of Justice of Rawls is extensively acknowledged as an essential contribution to the notion of justice. However, his work raises many questions. One of the major responses to the book came from Robert Nozick in his book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick offers a libertarian response to Rawls. Libertarian notion of politics implies that there is a recognition of natural human rights and if these rights are deprived would be an immoral act. The examples of this natural rights are the rights to personal autonomy and the right to properties.
The principal aim of Rawls in the publication of A Theory of Justice is for a redistribution of the resources. That is, Rawls suggests the “equal distribution of resources as the desirable state and then argues that inequality can be justified only by benefits
Thus, attempts to improve the condition of the least advantaged through redistribution are unjust because they make some people work involuntarily for others and deprive people of the goods and opportunities they have created through time and effort.” The rational human individuals might be able to choose a social structure with greater rewards for the majority of people and small rewards for the minority on the grounds that one is more likely to end up as part of a majority than a minority. Legal justice is generally considered a matter of appropriate responses to actions. In the version offered by Rawls, justice is detached from anything that anyone has done and thus may have nothing to do with any idea of what people deserve. “There is a possibility that the proponents of the unequal and competitive market economy may argue for insofar as the abundance of wealth produced by their preferred system contributes to the absolute standard of living of the poorest people in society.” While on the