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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780674007161
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-674-00716-1
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 05.12.2001
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2001
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 467 g
- Seiten: 296
- Format (B x H): 156 x 235 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt