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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (German: Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen) is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme. [1] [2] The principle refers to free access to and distribution of goods, capital and services. [3]
The French socialist Saint-Simonists of the 1820s and 1830s used slogans such as, "from each according to his ability, to each ability according to its work" [3] or, "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his works.” [4] Other examples of this can be found from Ferdinand Lassalle's and Eugen Dühring's statements to Leon ...
Ironically, in another passage, willing according to immutable reason is precisely the kind of capacity Elshtain ascribes to God as the basis of his moral authority, and she commands this over an inferior voluntarist version of divine command theory, which would make both morality and God's will contingent. [94]
Bettmann/Corbis/ Lucas Schifres via Getty Images“From each according to ability; To each according to need,” is a phrase derived from where? A) The works of Karl Marx B) The Bible C) The ...
His Critique of the Gotha Programme opposed the tendency of his followers Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel to compromise with the state socialist ideas of Ferdinand Lassalle in the interests of a united socialist party. [137] This work is also notable for another famous Marx quote: "From each according to his ability, to each according to ...
The slogan "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" refers to distributive justice in Marxism according to Karl Marx. [20] In Marxism-Leninism according to Vladimir Lenin the slogan "He who does not work, neither shall he eat" is a necessary approach to distributive justice on the path towards a communist society. [21]
The resultant society gains and allocates resources according to the quote "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!". [15] The communist approach eliminates scarcity in all respects, and represents a society from a pure collectivism school of thought, based upon the utilitarian moral perspective.
According to Aristotle, how to lead a good life is one of the central questions of ethics. [1]Ethics, also called moral philosophy, is the study of moral phenomena. It is one of the main branches of philosophy and investigates the nature of morality and the principles that govern the moral evaluation of conduct, character traits, and institutions.