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Distributive Justice and Freedom: Cohen on Money and Labour
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Fabre, Cécile |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | In his recent Rescuing Justice and Equality, G. A. Cohen mounts a sustained critique of coerced labour, against the background of a radical egalitarian conception of distributive justice. In this article, I argue that Cohenian egalitarians are committed to holding the talented under a moral duty to choose socially useful work for the sake of the less fortunate. As I also show, Cohen's arguments against coerced labour fail, particularly in the light of his commitment to coercive taxation. In the course of defending those claims, I claim that Cohen's remarks on freedom of occupational choice and taxation exhibit partiality towards the interests of the better-off to the detriment of the less fortunate – a partiality which is in tension with his commitment to equality |
| Related Links | http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8c5e/e5e3a7bda5cc1f15dd77afeffafdc4d773d8.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/EE0435F7FC037A14C3F42B11AE254AB6/S0953820810000312a.pdf/div-class-title-distributive-justice-and-freedom-cohen-on-money-and-labour-a-href-fn01-ref-type-fn-a-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 412 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| Starting Page | 393 |
| ISSN | 09538208 |
| e-ISSN | 17416183 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0953820810000312 |
| Journal | Utilitas |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 22 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2010-12-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Utilitas |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Philosophy |
