ISBN:
9780691148700
,
9780691148717
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
DDC:
306.3/42
Keywords:
Political science Philosophy
;
Capitalism
;
Equality
;
Social justice
;
Distributive justice
;
Communism
Abstract:
G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades of work, it contains previously uncollected articles that have shaped many of the central debates in political philosophy, as well as papers published here for the first time. In these pieces, Cohen asks what egalitarians have most reason to equalize, he considers the relationship between freed
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: Luck Egalitarianism; PART TWO: Freedom and Property; PART THREE: Ideal Theory and Political Practice; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9781400838660
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