O modelo de estado na visão de Robert Nozick

Abstract

This dissertation intends to present an analysis of the state model proposed by the philosopher Robert Nozick in his book Anarchy, State and Utopia, which was a kind of response to the book A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, which proposes the intervention of the State in people's lives as a formator element of justice. Nozick argues that the State should restrict itself to a few functions, such as national defense, public security and respect for contracts, precisely to protect the freedom of the citizen, and that any action that exceeds these functions is configured in an arbitrariness that does not find moral justification to exist, since it hurts individual rights. In the course of the theme, several commentators present positions, in order to allow an approximation of the point at which the Nozickian theory of State is in the scenario of political philosophy, as well as to identify some of its merits and some of its weaknesses. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]