ABSTRACT
Professor Robert Nozick provides what is probably the most devastating attack on John Rawls’ theory of justice as fairness, whilst setting out his own theory of justice. Nozick criticises Rawls’ principles of justice as being based on what he regards as indefensible assumptions: • that people’s abilities are a common asset to be utilised for the
good of all; • that people are necessarily altruistic and that individuals will
accept social arrangements and a system of distribution which will take from them some goods and redistribute these for the sake of providing the most impoverished members of society with certain advantages.
