PHIL 174g Study Guide - Final Guide: Atlantic Slave Trade, Passive Smoking, Rolex
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Introduction: cohen believes that a lack of money equates a lack of freedom. Given this argument, my view is that money does give people freedom, so those suffering from poverty are not suffering from a lack of means, but a lack of freedom. I will refute the right wing argument that is separated into two movements: one that talks about poverty not carrying a lack of freedom and another that talks about the government not having a primary task to help homelessness. Next, i will give an example about affording an airplane ticket that shows how a lack of money does elicit suffering from interference, which does inhibit a restricted environment for those who are poor. Following this example, i will present all of the objections against equating a lack of money with a lack of freedom and refute them in order to adhere to cohen"s argument.
