{"id":1706,"date":"2011-12-29T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T09:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T08:39:49","slug":"g-a-cohens-freedom-and-money-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2011\/12\/29\/g-a-cohens-freedom-and-money-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"G. A. Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Freedom and Money&#8221; (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which Cohen argues that lack of money is a lack of political freedom, and that the issue of private property (which is axiomatic to libertarians) cannot be determined independently of issues of political freedom. In other words, you can&#8217;t reasonably set aside the issue of distribution of property (i.e. wealth) from your consideration of freedom. This pervasive confusion, Cohen argues, arises because of a misperception of the nature of money, which appears as a real thing, like rocks or even like physical strength, but is actually &#8220;social power in the form of a thing&#8221; (Marx).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it is a great read, lucid and mind expanding, and a great example of political philosophy . I can&#8217;t find a journal reference for it, but it is &#8211; apparently &#8211; reprinted in <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/9457.html\">On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy<\/a> (2011)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdt.edu\/Upload\/_115634753114776100.pdf\">Link to PDF<\/a> (thanks Josie!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Cohen argues that lack of money is a lack of political freedom, and that the issue of private property (which is axiomatic to libertarians) cannot be determined independently of issues of political freedom. In other words, you can&#8217;t reasonably set aside the issue of distribution of property (i.e. wealth) from your consideration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-rw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6314,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/6314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}