On Cohen 'Equality: From The Perspective Of The Criticism Of The Theory Of Self-ownership

As one of the initiators of analytical marxist, in his later life, Cohen put his main academic energy into the political philosophy. His political philosophy is famous for egalitarian, he himself is also called "egalitarian conscience". He thought the equality is the value that the socialist society must insist on.Facing the contradiction of freedom and equality, he chose equality rather than freedom. Cohen's equality contains many things, this article mainly researches Cohen's equality from the perspective of the criticism of the theory of self-ownership.The equal thought which is based on the criticism of the theory of self-ownership equal thought is the most essential part of thoughts of Cohen equality.One of the reasons why Cohen realized the important of political philosophy is that the libertarian of Nozick poses direct challenge on equal value of socialism.He realized that Nozick's liberalism must be refuted and the socialist equality must be defensed.Cohen thinks that the theories of self-ownership constitutes Libertarianism, also formes rawls justice theory, as a representative of the left-wing liberalism, it even constitutes the foundation of the theory of marxism theory. Self-ownership is directly contradictory with equal value, it is must be refuted. It has been a thinking development process that Cohen refuted the self-ownership theory. Facing the charge of the libertarians who are represented by Nozick, Cohen focuses on hold justice theory's cheek, dismissinghim from the procedure justice launched demonstration of the justice of freedom and pointing out his misuse, this is just the concept of preliminary retort Nozick cheek point of view. Through the preliminary studies, Cohen realized that the self-ownership theory is the theoretical basis of libertarianism, but also the theoretical basis of left-wing liberalism, he first defined the concept of self ownership, pointed out the incompatibility of ownership and equal self, and denied any possibility of trying to combine them together. As a marxist researchers, Cohen thought that marxist also exists liberalism problem, that is based on self-ownership. If Cohen wanted to insist on equal value of marxism, he must also re-examined some of the theories of marxism. The exploitation and labour theory of value,which are based on the theory of self-ownership, suffered challenges. To insist on equality, we must deny self-ownership, and the negative ego ownership is to give up the marxist exploitation view and labor value theory. Cohen finally started to refute themselves to explore the theory ownership theory through the theory of self-ownership scepticism, dispelling the inner advantage of ownership theory to make it unappealing. Cohen said there existed the possibility that the equality could be realized in the times affluent society without insisting on self-ownership.So far, Cohen's equality theory which is based on the theory of self-ownership criticism all completed.Cohen's the theory of self-ownership criticism is important, it digested the theoretical charm, and dicussed the possible realizing paths of equality at times rich society. But his interpretation of marxism limited biased. He studied the equality based on the logic analysis method, making equal value realization lose the force of history. Marxism believes that the socialist society pursues equal value, socialism puts equality as one of its own essence attributes. At present stage of socialist society,what we realize is limited equality and freedom. Freedom and equality is compatible. The egalitarian that Cohen insisted on is only the illusion of equality.