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" If you're an egalitarian, how come you're so rich? / "
G.A. Cohen
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631827
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Cohen, G. A., (Gerald Allan),1941-2009
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If you're an egalitarian, how come you're so rich? /\ G.A. Cohen
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xii, 233 pages ;; 25 cm
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0674002180
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: 9780674002180
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: 0674006933
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: 9780674006935
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Equality
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Distributive justice
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Social justice
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Communism
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Liberalism
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Religion and social problems
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303.3/72
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HM821.C64 2000
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If you are an egalitarian, how come you are so rich?
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