Is Rawls arguing in a circle when he includes natural assets in the veil of ignorance? And why doesn't state coercion to enforce property rights count as the state bringing about a given distribution?

Here’s the recording for the nineteenth session of our Substack philosophy class for paid subscribers. We finally finished Ch. 7 of Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia. We’ll be reading the first two chunks of Ch. 8 (“Equality” and “Equality of Opportunity”) for Tuesday.

Also, remember that this and all the previous class recordings so far can be found here.

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