G. A. Cohen, Cohen G. a.

Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521471749
• ISBN-10: 0521471745
• Artikelnr.: 21200923

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: history, ethics and Marxism
1. How patterns preserve liberty Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain
2. Freedom, justice and market transactions
3. Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality
4. Are freedom and equality compatible
5. Self-ownership, communism, and equality: against the Marxist technological fix: 6. Marxism and contemporary political philosophy, or: why Nozick exercises some Marxists more than he does any egalitarian liberals
7. Marx and Locke on land and labour
8. Exploitation in Marx: what makes it unjust?
9. Self-ownership: delineating the concept
10. Self-ownership: assessing the thesis
11. The future of a disillusion
Bibliography
Index of names
Subject index.