Word: utopia
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...foolish to look at Harvard as a utopia whose labor policies should be divorced from those of the world around it. The Living Wage Campaign calls on Harvard to be a leader, but Harvard cannot lead by paying a living wage few other institutions, public or private, have the luxury of matching. Certainly a few cities, including Cambridge, have living wage ordinances, but those generally cover only municipal employees and contractors...
...delivered several talks on the topic at Harvard as a guest lecturer. Shortly after giving the lectures, Nozick later recalled, Rawls’ Theory of Justice arrived in his mailbox, and soon after he prepared his own rejoinder—which culminated three years later in Anarchy, State, and Utopia...
Though he achieved widespread recognition in the field of political philosophy, Nozick always considered himself primarily an analytic philosopher. He later referred to the writing of Anarchy, State, and Utopia as “an accident” that came about as a side project while he had been pursuing loftier questions of free will...
Eventually, as he returned to analytic philosophy, Nozick stopped trying to keep up with the growing literature about Anarchy, State, and Utopia...
Though none of his later work attained the same popular success as Anarchy, State, and Utopia, many within the small field of analytic philosophy consider his contributions to that field to be no less important. Nozick tackled fundamental questions, such as “why there is something rather than nothing” and whether humans have free will...