Marx, Morality and the Virtue of Beneficence: 115 (American University Studies, Series 5: Philosophy) - Hardcover

Sweet, Robert T

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820414867 ISBN 13: 9780820414867

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1991

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-This study is a bold attempt to unravel the knotted issue of whether Marx' work contains a coherent moral theory. Sweet answers in the affirmative, basing his conclusion upon a novel reading of Marxian anthropology which emphasizes the normative importance for Marx of the virtue of beneficence. His work is a unique and refreshing contribution to an area of scholarship which by and large has been monopolized by positivistic denials that Marx was concerned with moral analysis. Sweet has persuasively challenged that dogma.- (Kerry S. Walters, Gettysburg College)"

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This book presents a reconstruction of Marx' moral theory. Marx held a moral theory as the basis of his condemnation of capitalism. His theory relies on a normative view of human nature. On this view, humans have the potential to become free, creative, truly social producers. For Marx, this is the highest good for humans. On this reconstruction, -truly social- gets explicated as humans acquiring through historical development the virtue of beneficence. This virtue eliminates the need for a theory of rights for communist society and finds its beginning in proletarian revolutionary motivation within capitalism.
In addition, Marx held the communist distribution principle to be normative though non-juridical."

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0820414867
• ISBN 13: 9780820414867
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 207