Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Hardcover, New)

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 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, in the Marxist conception, the employer steals from the worker what should belong to her, because she produced it. Thereby a deeply inegalitarian notion has penetrated what is in aspiration an egalitarian theory. Purging that notion from socialist thought, he argues, enables construction of a more consistent egalitarianism.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
Release date:	October 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	G. A. Cohen
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-47174-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic systems > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	0-521-47174-5
Barcode:	9780521471749

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