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Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

— Robert Nozick The Nature of Rationality (1993)

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Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

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What persons may and may not do to one another limits what they may do through the apparatus of a state, or do to establish such an apparatus.

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From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

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Is not the minimal state, the framework for utopia, an inspiring vision?

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