Abstract:
Based on his principle of obtaining justice, Nozick asserted that capitalist system was a legitimate social system, which can be regarded as Nozick’s orientation to obtaining the institution of a just society. However, Cohen considered Nozick’s orientation to be a logical process of development, which could then be divided into three steps, thus refuting the legitimate verification offered by Nozick for capitalist system from two angles. Finally, Cohen concluded that the initial obtainment of capitalism made the condition of others worsen, so it was illegitimate. Although Cohen’s analytic refutation of Nozick’s orientation to obtaining the institution of a just society was of great theoretical and realistic significance, his theory has some very serious defects in itself.
