1- Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Allameh Tabatabai University (RA), Tehran, Iran. 2- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran.
Abstract: (307 Views)
Justice has different dimensions and aspects, and each of the political and legal schools try to present their point of view regarding its realization. One of the types of views related to justice is the approach proposed by Robert Nozick as one of the liberal and new right thinkers, which is known as meritorious justice. The question of the present research is, what are the philosophical foundations of deserving justice in Nozick's views? By analyzing Nozick's opinions, the present study has come to the conclusion that meritorious justice becomes meaningful when people deal with their affairs without the arbitrary interference of the government, and the role of the government is only limited to defending the private property of individuals, preserving and protecting them, and also providing Making equal opportunities for them, strive towards its realization. In this approach, the principle is that meritorious justice is the result of individual effort and effort, respect for the property of individuals in the true sense, acceptance of human freedom in its philosophical and political meaning, and an effort to remove the obstacles that cause deprivation of the freedom of property and freedom from the results of economic activity. They become human. Finally, within the framework of deserving justice, which freedom is the prelude to achieving, the members of a society reach individual growth and prosperity. In this way of justice, people have equal natural rights as they are human beings and no one can prevent them from being violated or ignored. In this article, descriptive-analytical method and library tools are used.
- Abdollah, A., Ghasemi, Z. (2024). Philosophical Foundations of Deserving Justice in the Views of Robert Nozick, Journal of Legal Philosophy Studies, 2(1), 145-162.