The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of CommerceUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010-03-15 - 634 psl. For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner. |
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... Capitalist Life 407 The Profane and the Sacred both work in capitalism. Sacred Reasons 416 The sacred motivates the market for Art, of course; but it figures in most markets. Not by PAlone 424 The sacred is bigger than economists think ...
... Capitalist Life 407 The Profane and the Sacred both work in capitalism. Sacred Reasons 416 The sacred motivates the market for Art, of course; but it figures in most markets. Not by PAlone 424 The sacred is bigger than economists think ...
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... Capitalist Ethic Grew in the Dutch and English Lands, 1600–1800, will tell how in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the virtues fared theoretically and practically in northwestern Europe, and with what consequences for the ...
... Capitalist Ethic Grew in the Dutch and English Lands, 1600–1800, will tell how in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the virtues fared theoretically and practically in northwestern Europe, and with what consequences for the ...
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... capitalism in its American form. I do not mean “I'm sorry.” The book is an apologia in the theological sense of ... capitalism does not need to be offset to be good. Capitalism can on the contrary be virtuous. In a fallen world the ...
... capitalism in its American form. I do not mean “I'm sorry.” The book is an apologia in the theological sense of ... capitalism does not need to be offset to be good. Capitalism can on the contrary be virtuous. In a fallen world the ...
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... capitalism” is defined, so long as it is not defined a priori to mean vice incarnate. The prejudging definition was favored by Rousseau—though he did not literally use the word “capitalism,” still to be coined—and by Proudhon, Marx ...
... capitalism” is defined, so long as it is not defined a priori to mean vice incarnate. The prejudging definition was favored by Rousseau—though he did not literally use the word “capitalism,” still to be coined—and by Proudhon, Marx ...
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... capitalism” just means modern greed. To put the matter positively, we have been and can be virtuous and commercial, liberal and capitalist, democratic and rich, all these. As John Mueller said in a book in 1999 anticipating my theme ...
... capitalism” just means modern greed. To put the matter positively, we have been and can be virtuous and commercial, liberal and capitalist, democratic and rich, all these. As John Mueller said in a book in 1999 anticipating my theme ...
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Appeal | 55 |
Love | 89 |
Faith and Hope | 149 |
Prudence and Justice | 251 |
Part V Systematizing the SevenVirtues | 301 |
Part III The Bourgeois Uses of the Virtues | 405 |
The unfinished case for the bourgeois virtues | 509 |
Notes | 515 |
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