Self-ownership, Freedom, And Equality: SELF-OWNERSHIP FREEDOM -OS N/D

by G. A. Cohen

2020-12-29 08:42:32

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 show... Read more
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. Less

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File size9.25 X 6.18 X 1.02 in
Print pages288
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date October 26, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521471749
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G. A. Cohen (1941-2009) was emeritus fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. His books include Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (Princeton), If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You'r...

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