稳定的乌托邦：对诺齐克乌托邦模式中关于稳定的循环定义的批判

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ANALYSIS Pub Date : 2024-06-11 DOI:10.1093/analys/anad091

Susumu Cato, Hun Chung

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在《无政府、国家与乌托邦》（1974 年）的第三部分，罗伯特-诺齐克提出了他所谓的 "可能世界模型"（307），以研究乌托邦的形式属性，乌托邦被定义为 "所有可能世界中最好的世界"（298）。其基本思想是，每个人都被赋予通过想象创造任何可能世界及其居民的权力。稳定性有两种定义：(a) 非循环定义，即只有当且仅当没有人能想象出一个更好的世界时，世界才是稳定的；(b) 循环定义，即只有当且仅当没有人能想象出一个同样稳定的更好的世界时，世界才是稳定的。在本文中，我们证明了四个定理（即不确定性定理、稳定的乌托邦定理、无人乌托邦定理和冗余定理），它们为我们提供了决定性的理由来拒绝循环定义，而选择稳定性的非循环定义来分析诺齐克的乌托邦理论。

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Stable dystopia: a critique of the circular definition of stability in Nozick’s model of utopia

In Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), Robert Nozick presents what he calls ‘the model of possible worlds’ (307) to examine the formal properties of utopia, defined as ‘the best of all possible worlds’ (298). The basic idea is that each person is given the power to create any possible world and its inhabitants by imagining them. Two definitions of stability have been proposed: (a) the non-circular definition according to which a world is stable if and only if nobody can imagine a better world and (b) the circular definition according to which a world is stable if and only if nobody can imagine a better world that is also stable. In this paper, we prove four theorems (namely, the indeterminacy theorem, the stable dystopia theorem, the nobody’s utopia theorem and the redundancy theorem) that provide us with decisive reasons to reject the circular definition and opt for the non-circular definition of stability to analyse Nozick’s theory of utopia.

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