PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Analytical Marxism, Friedrich Engels, Class Conflict
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Reason nozick emphasizes self ownership, is that we are separate individuals, each with our own life to live. Freedom to lead our lives in accordance with our own conception of the good is the ultimate value. If consent were required, one might be able to refuse. An act of appropriation must not make others worse off than they were when the land was in common use. Principle of self ownership does not by itself generate a moral defense of capitalism. With discrediting and eventual dissolution of communist regimes in eastern europe. It is said that marxism is dead. More ignored by american philosophers in the 20th century. Analytical marxism an attempt to reformulate marxism theories. Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country"s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. )
