Contested Commodities: Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts and Other Things - Rilegato

Radin, Margaret Jane

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ISBN 10: 0674166973 ISBN 13: 9780674166974

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Radin observes, but some desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades abhorrent. Radin observes that many such areas of contested commodification reflect a persistent dilemma in liberal society: we value freedom of choice and simultaneously believe that choices ought to be restricted to protect the integrity of what it means to be a person. She views this tension as primarily the result of underlying social and economic inequality, which need not reflect an irreconcilable conflict in the premises of liberal democracy.

As a philosophical pragmatist, the author therefore argues for a conception of incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under carefully regulated circumstances. Such a regulatory regime both symbolizes the importance of nonmarket value to personhood and aspires to ameliorate the underlying conditions of inequality.

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674166973
• ISBN 13: 9780674166974
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 277