A Critique of Freedom and Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Critique of Freedom and Equality write by John Charvet. This book was released on 1981-08-31. A Critique of Freedom and Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mr Charvet's book is about the grounds of ethical life, or the nature and basis of our ethical obligations. He begins with an extended criticism of individualist theories; he also considers the theories of Hegel and Marx, which, like his own, are critical of individualist conceptions. He develops an original account of the grounds of ethical life that successfully integrates the particular and communal elements of individuality, and he shows how this conception requires specific forms of social and political life. This unusual book will appeal to students and scholars of political theory, the history of ideas, sociology and philosophy.
Force and Freedom
Force and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Force and Freedom write by Arthur Ripstein. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Force and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; indeed the requirements of justice can be articulated without recourse to views about human inclinations and vulnerabilities. Second, Kant argues for a distinctive moral principle, which restricts the legitimate use of force to the creation of a system of equal freedom. Ripstein’s description of the unity and philosophical plausibility of this dimension of Kant’s thought will be a revelation to political and legal scholars. In addition to providing a clear and coherent statement of the most misunderstood of Kant’s ideas, Ripstein also shows that Kant’s views remain conceptually powerful and morally appealing today. Ripstein defends the idea of equal freedom by examining several substantive areas of law—private rights, constitutional law, police powers, and punishment—and by demonstrating the compelling advantages of the Kantian framework over competing approaches.
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality write by G. A. Cohen. This book was released on 1995-10-26. Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Illusion of Freedom and Equality
The Illusion of Freedom and Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illusion of Freedom and Equality write by Richard Stivers. This book was released on 2009-01-07. The Illusion of Freedom and Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how Enlightenment values have been transformed in a technological civilization.
Liberty or Equality
Liberty or Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberty or Equality write by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. This book was released on 1952. Liberty or Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
