If you're an egalitarian, how come you're so rich? /
[Book]
G.A. Cohen
xii, 233 pages ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index
Paradoxes of conviction -- Politics and religion in a Montreal Communist Jewish childhood -- The development of Socialism from Utopia to science -- Hegel in Marx: the obstetric motif in the Marxist conception of revolution -- The opium of the people: God in Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx -- Equality: from fact to norm -- Ways that bad things can be good: a lighter look at the problem of evil -- Justice, incentives, and selfishness -- Where the action is: on the site of the distributive justice -- Political philosophy and personal behavior
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"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."--Jacket
If you're an egalitarian, how come you're so rich?
If you are an egalitarian, how come you are so rich?