Marxism and Moral Concepts

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Contents Introduction Chapter I Value Judgements or the Meaning of 'Good' Introduction Value as descriptive Value as prescriptive Value as Neither Descriptive nor Prescriptive Value as both descriptive and prescriptive Economic value Value and the division of labor The relation between value and utility Objections to the labor theory of value Value and the Marxist theory of knowledge Chapter II Normative Judgements or the Meaning of 'Right' Introduction Rights as claims on other people Rights as claims to things Commodity production and ethical interpretations of 'right' Class divisions and ethical ideas Modes of production and ethical ideas A Marxist analysis of philosophical ideas in a concrete historical period Ethical relativism Ethical implications of changes in the mode of production Conscience and social consciousness Chapter III Moral Obligations or the Meaning of 'Ought' Introduction Motives and results of moral acts Ourselves and others Freedom and class interest Freedom and prediction The dialectics of freedom and the consciousness of necessity Freedom and time Conclusion Chapter IV Alienation and Political Change Introduction The concept of alienation Further development of the concept of alienation in Marx's early writings Transition from the early manuscripts to Capital A lienation and ethical values The political form of Marxist ethics The proletariat as the agent of social change Revolutionary transformation and the prob lem of ends and means Conclusion Notes Notes to Chapter I Notes to Chapter II Notes to Chapter III Notes to Chapter IV List of Works Cited