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If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich ? by Gerald Allan Cohen is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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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. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gerald Allan Cohen
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674006935
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Political Science, Religion, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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