Research On Cohen’s Thought Of Egalitarianism

Equality relates to the vital interests of everyone, it is an enduring topic ofdiscussion since ancient times. Cohen is the founder of the Marxist school of analysis,he made a careful approach to defense of Marx’s historical materialism by analyzingthe relationship between with the production of rights and powers, revealing thesuppression of capitalist relations of production the nature of the proletarian power.His ideas in evoking the spirit of proletarian revolt, so that people unite to fight fortheir rights and powers to establish a just and equitable society. Cohen’s egalitarianideology aims to promote a good foothold in the "community" approach to acceleratethe pace of social equality. In general, Cohen’s egalitarian ideology of equality fromthe fact that changes to the content of norms of equality, and on the basis of equalityand freedom as the highest goal, there are important implications to contemporaryphilosophy.This article is divided into the background introduction, the theoretical basis ofCohen egalitarian ideology, the main content Cohen egalitarian ideology and theoryCohen egalitarian ideology evaluation of four parts. This article is based on historicalmaterialism to Cohen Marxist concept of equality based on the construction by Cohenand three other famous contemporary philosophers debate on equality issues, soexplore egalitarian theory of Cohen theoretical has theoretical and practical value.The first chapter describes the background and significance of the topic,research status, research ideas and methods, as well as research priorities and researchdifficulties.The second chapter describes the theoretical basis of social background andtheoretical basis. This chapter first describes the social background, the contradictionsof capitalist development and liberal thought filled equality, and pointed out that thetheoretical basis of Cohen egalitarian ideology, namely Marxism Idea concept of equality and equality under the Horizon Western Philosophy Perspective.The third chapter describes the main contents Cohen idea of equality, which isthe core of this article. This chapter analyzes the content Cohen egalitarian ideology:First Cohen defended the Marxist ideology of equality, the second is Cohen on Rawls’theory of liberal judges, the third Cohen critique of Nozick allocation theory of justice,Fourth Cohen luck egalitarian ideology, these four aspects constitute the basicframework of Cohen egalitarian ideology.The fifth chapter describes the egalitarian ideology of Cohen’s theory evaluation.Cohen’s contribution to the theory of equality thinking that it realized from the fact thatthe norms of equality equal changes in the content, and on the basis of equality andfreedom as the highest goal, has important implications for contemporaryphilosophical thinking equality issues. But to answer the question of equality argumentCohen also has a one-sided interpretation of Marx’s text, the lack of theoreticallimitations of holistic thinking on research methods.