A couple of articles about dead guys - Julian Sanchez interviews Robert Nozick on the publication of his 2001 book Invariances:
JS: You outline a series of different "levels of ethics," as you call them, the most basic being characterized by, as you said, "voluntary cooperation for mutual benefit," and the higher levels involving more responsiveness and caring for others and positive aid. Yet you say, and this is what seems particularly libertarian, that no society should go further than enforcing that most basic requirement of peaceful cooperation.RN: Yes, and libertarianism never really claimed that all of ethics was exhausted by what could be enforced, by what one could legitimately be coerced to do or not do. That's the political, interpersonal realm that libertarian principles were about, not what might be the highest ethical aspiration.
Also, David Boaz on Robert Heilbroner, who died earlier this month, but not before making some admissions about socialism.
Posted by Walter at January 21, 2005 04:09 PM