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If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?

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Harvard University Press, Jun 30, 2009 - Philosophy - 256 pages
This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy.

In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.

  

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There are few philosophy books these days that give you a full sense of the person writing them, what the author is like as a person and where he is coming from, this is one of those books. And, amazingly enough, its humanity does not detract from its philosophical value. Inspiring. Read full review

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Contents

2 Politics and Religion in a Montreal Communist Jewish Childhood
20
3 The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science
42
The Obstetric Motif in the Marxist Conception of Revolution
58
God in Hegel Feuerbach and Marx
79
From Fact to Norm
101
A Lighter Look at the Problem of Evil
116
8 Justice Incentives and Selfishness
117
On the Site of Distributive Justice
134
If Youre an Egalitarian How Come Youre so Rich?
148
Envoi
180
Notes
183
Bibliography
221
Credits
227
Index
229
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About the author (2009)

G. A. Cohen was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University.

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