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Self-ownership, freedom, and equality /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, G. A. (Gerald Allan), 1941-2009 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press : Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 1995.
Colección:Studies in Marxism and social theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : history, ethics and Marxism
  • Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain : how patterns preserve liberty
  • Justice, freedom, and market transactions
  • Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality
  • Are freedom and equality compatible?
  • Self-ownership, communism, and equality : against the Marxist technological fix
  • Marxism and contemporary political philosophy, or, Why Nozick exercises some Marxists more than he does any egalitarian liberals
  • Marx and Locke on land and labour
  • Exploitation in Marx : what makes it unjust?
  • Self-ownership : delineating the concept
  • Self-ownership : assessing the thesis
  • The future of a disillusion.