Analyses Of G.A.Cohen's Thought Of Egalitarianism

G.A.Cohen grew up under the influence of Marxism and socialism revolution,and he had have a firm belief of socialism or communism.Even under the times of disappearing of Soviet Socialist System,he has still continue his belief.Until being libertarians Nozick's challenge and reviewing traditional Marxism about equality concept,he began to walk from the previous thinking in a new angle of view to study the equality theory.This paper is to analyze Cohen's pursuit of equality theory from the double sphere of Marxist Philosophy and Political Philosophy.Cohen's egalitarianism theory is formed on the based reflection of the traditional Marxism about equality of judgment and with the famous contemporary political philosophers Nozick and Rawl's collision of ideas,to demonstrated the superiority of socialism.His defend and hold of equal value in the study of political philosophy provides an important platform for the words.But it should also be seen that the Cohen's egalitarian society just an ideal future,with a utopian vision.Cohen's critique of classic Marxism exists prejudice.We should be objective and comprehensive angle to discuss his theory.The paper mainly from the following three aspects: Firstly,Cohen's egalitarian theory is necessary.Nozick's writings,"Anarchy,State and Utopia",gave two puzzling argument: the Chamberlain argument and the argument of entrepreneurs in socialist society.In addition,he lost confidence,related to the future of Marxism equality of two factual arguments.Under new historical conditions,the fact that economic equality shell has been broken.He must be engaged in specialized study,normative philosophy defending equal socialist justice.Secondly it is the specific discuss Cohen's exploration of feminist theory.Cohen has theoretical exploration of egalitarianism.He realized that to achieve equality of socialism,the most important is against the mainstream political philosophy to defend capitalism does not equal.The starting point of his discovery is criticized represented by Nozick around the relationship of freedom and equality,then around the relationship between equality and justice criticized represented by Rawls' liberal equality view.It is concluded that the world common proposition.he pointed out that the social basic structure standardization renovation,and should pay attention to personal choice in daily life and the great value of the whole social morality.On this basis,Cohen has started to construct in his pursuit of egalitarian society.After,Cohen has discussed the feasibility of the egalitarian society.He put forward that the socialist on a small scale may be possible,but within the scope of the whole society whether socialism or communism is a problem.Because there are two very important difficulties: the nature of human selfish and lack of social technology.Cohen has tried to carrying out system design on the basis of the generous.But in fact Cohen has considered the realization of equal socialism and communism is still a long way to go,for the exploration of the unknown also need to redouble our efforts,the pursuit of ideal socialist equality not give up.Finally it is from the sphere of Marxist Philosophy to discuss the evaluation of Cohen's the pursuit of equality theory from the sphere of Marxist Philosophy.Cohen has reflected and criticized to the classical Marxism on his own theoretical framework.He pointed out that classical Marxism about equality problem have a practical processing path;He was opposed to Marx with the anesthetic to avoid of technology and the root of the certain bourgeois values without breaking problem,and on this basis to build his egalitarian socialism society.But in the perspective of Marxism,Cohen has misreading criticism of classical Marxism,even did not see a clean break of Marx's thought with the concept of private ownership and private,so he did not complete and accurate understanding of Marx's real context and meaning.His theoretical exploration on the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the current our country actively advocating and practicing the socialist core values of provides an important theoretical enlightenment.