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 as he wishes with himself. The author argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure, thereby undermining the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. He goes on to show that the standard Marxist condemnation of exploitation implies an endorsement of self-ownership, since,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-88634-8
- EAN: 9780511886348
- Produktnummer: 16978501
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 26'334 KB
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