Editing Distributive justice (section)

=== Robert Nozick ===

One of the major exponents of the [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] outlook toward distributive justice is Robert Nozick. In his book [[Anarchy, State, and Utopia]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nozick |first1=Robert |title=Anarchy, State, and Utopia |date=1974 |publisher=Basic Books}}</ref> he stresses how the term distributive justice is not a neutral one. In fact, there is no central distributor that can be regarded as such. What each person gets, he or she gets from the outcomes of Lockean self-ownership (a condition that implies one's labor mixed with the world), or others who give to him in exchange for something, or as a gift. For him, "there is no more a distributing or distribution of shares than there is a distribution of mates in a society in which persons choose whom they shall marry".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nozick |first1=Robert |title=Anarchy, State, and Utopia |date=1974 |publisher=Basic Books |page=149 }}</ref> This means that there can be no pattern to which to conform or aim. The market and the result of individual actions provided the conditions for libertarian principles of just acquisition and exchange (contained in his Entitlement Theory) will have as a result a distribution that will be just, without the need for considerations about the specific model or standard it should follow.