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Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality

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Cambridge University Press, Oct 26, 1995 - Philosophy - 277 pages
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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A thoughtful and systematic critique of libertarian reasoning. Although I am not entirely persuaded the notion of self-ownership (or some similar concept) is to be rejected en toto, Cohen deconstructs ... Read full review

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Contents

Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
x
history ethics and Marxism
1
Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain how patterns preserve liberty
19
Justice freedom and market transactions
38
Selfownership worldownership and equality
67
Are freedom and equality compatible?
92
Selfownership communism and equality against the Marxist technological fix
116
Marx and Locke on land and labour
165
Exploitation in Marx what makes it unjust?
195
Selfownership delineating the concept
209
Selfownership assessing the thesis
229
The future of a disillusion
245
Bibliography
266
Index of names
272
Subject index
274

Marxism and contemporary political philosophy or why Nozick exercises some Marxists more than he does any egalitarian liberals
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Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
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Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality is ga Cohen’s attempt to rescue. something of the socialist outlook on society from the challenge of libertarianism, ...
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gaCohen, Self Ownership, Freedom and Equality (contains the item above and much else). Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, pp. 95{125. ...
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