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Robert Nozick

16 November 1938-23 January 2002

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The Experience machine is nozick's thought experiment that sets out to argue against the hedonistic idea that 'pleasure is good'. One is offered the choice to plug into a matrix-like world where the body would be floating in a tank but they would believe themselves to be experiencing pleasure.

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Moral philosophy is responsible for setting the background for, and boundaries of, political philosophy. 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.