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- Title
DEMONOPOLIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION OF THE SECURITY FUNCTION OF THE STATE.
- Authors
KARADJOV, Boshko
- Abstract
In this article we will try to value the most radical economical, political and philosophical idea of demonopolization and privatization of the state and its security function. This idea is expressed in the last great work of political and economical romanticism Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974) by the American philosopher Robert Nozick (1938-2002). This book changed the way in which political economy and political philosophy was re-thinking. And not just because of the scandalous consistency of his radical positions, but mostly because he used the techniques of analytical philosophy and applying destructive counter-examples and bizarre thought experiments. Nozick, almost all his professional life, dealt with epistemology. At Princeton he received a doctorate under the mentorship of the Caral Hempel. However, his research in the field of applied logic and the general theory of rationality remained in the shadow of Anarchy, State and Utopia. This book in 1975 won the prestigious U.S. National Book Award in the category: Philosophy and Religion and it contains the most vital moral critique of redistribution models of social justice and the most complete apology of market freedoms. Nozick's idea of privatizing all public (state) services, and consequently, security and protection as a state service per se, is a radical political, economic philosophy in which we see the one possibility of restoring and cultivating the philosophical practice of utopian thinking in the field posable new economic and social arrangement. That is why we will analyze, through the influence of the 'invisible hand' of the free market of private security agency, the consistency of its normative assumption about the origin, value and justification of the minimal state with unconditional value of freedom and libertarianism as a political and economic philosophy.
- Subjects
NOZICK, Robert, 1938-2002; PRINCETON University; CATEGORIES (Philosophy); POLITICAL philosophy; PHILOSOPHY of religion; NATIONAL Book Awards; FREE enterprise; PRIVATE flying
- Publication
Journal of Sustainable Development (1857-8519), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 24, p45
- ISSN
1857-6095
- Publication type
Article