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Self Ownership Freedom and Equality
Author | : G. A. Cohen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1995-10-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107393431 |
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In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said to reflect each person's freedom to do as he wishes with himself. The author argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure, thereby undermining the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. He goes on to show that the standard Marxist condemnation of exploitation implies an endorsement of self-ownership, since, in the Marxist conception, the employer steals from the worker what should belong to her, because she produced it. Thereby a deeply inegalitarian notion has penetrated what is in aspiration an egalitarian theory. Purging that notion from socialist thought, he argues, enables construction of a more consistent egalitarianism.
Self Ownership Freedom and Equality
Author | : G. A. Cohen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995-10-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521477514 |
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In this book, G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, arguing that it cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure thus undermining the concept that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism & its accompanying inequality.
Self Ownership Freedom and Equality
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Author | : Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory Oxford University and Fellow G A Cohen,Cohen G a |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1107398665 |
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Defenders of capitalism claim that its inequality is the necessary price of the freedom that it guarantees. In that defense of capitalist inequality, freedom is self-ownership, the right of each person to do as he wishes with himself. The author shows that self-ownership fails to deliver the freedom it promises to secure. He thereby undermines the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. In the final chapter he reaffirms the moral superiority of socialism, against the background of the disastrous Soviet experiment.
Rescuing Justice and Equality
Author | : G. A. Cohen |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674029651 |
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In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people’s material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate deep inequality. In the course of providing a deep and sophisticated critique of Rawls’s theory of justice, Cohen demonstrates that questions of distributive justice arise not only for the state but also for people in their daily lives. The right rules for the macro scale of public institutions and policies also apply, with suitable adjustments, to the micro level of individual decision-making. Cohen also charges Rawls’s constructivism with systematically conflating the concept of justice with other concepts. Within the Rawlsian architectonic, justice is not distinguished either from other values or from optimal rules of social regulation. The elimination of those conflations brings justice closer to equality.
Self ownership Freedom and Equality
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Author | : Gerald Allan Cohen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
ISBN | : 0511962444 |
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Self Ownership Freedom and Equality
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Author | : Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory Oxford University and Fellow G A Cohen,Cohen G a |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-05-18 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1107390249 |
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In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said to reflect each person's freedom to do as as he wishes with himself. The author argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure, thereby undermining the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. He goes on to show that the standard Marxist condemnation of exploitation implies an endorsement of self-ownership, since, in the Marxist conception, the employer steals from the worker what should belong to her, because she produced it. Thereby a deeply inegalitarian notion has penetrated what is in aspiration an egalitarian theory. Purging that notion from socialist thought, he argues, enables construction of a more consistent egalitarianism.
The Oxford Handbook of Freedom
Author | : David Schmidtz,Carmen E. Pavel |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199989423 |
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We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt. The concept of freedom (and relatedly the notion of liberty) is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means, and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers, as well some historians and political theorists, in order to reflect the breadth of the topic. This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends, with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames (framing the overall debates about freedom), historical frames (freedom in key historical periods, from the ancients onward), institutional frames (freedom and the law), cultural frames (mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free), economic frames (freedom and the market), and lastly psychological frames (free will in philosophy and psychology).
Marx and Locke on Land and Labour
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Author | : Gerald Allan Cohen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Labor theory of value |
ISBN | : 0856725471 |
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