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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... PRUDENCE AND JUSTICE Prudence Is a Virtue 253 Prudence makes other virtues work, and is proper benevolence toward the self. The Monomania of Immanuel Kant 263 The other, Kantian system that has replaced virtue ethics in the thinking of ...
... PRUDENCE AND JUSTICE Prudence Is a Virtue 253 Prudence makes other virtues work, and is proper benevolence toward the self. The Monomania of Immanuel Kant 263 The other, Kantian system that has replaced virtue ethics in the thinking of ...
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... prudence without other virtues. I say that the market supports the virtues.6 As the economist Alfred Marshall put it in 1890, “Man's character has been molded by his every-day work, and the material resources which he thereby procures ...
... prudence without other virtues. I say that the market supports the virtues.6 As the economist Alfred Marshall put it in 1890, “Man's character has been molded by his every-day work, and the material resources which he thereby procures ...
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... Prudence Only.” Mistaken yet again—not that all philosophy is useful. I suggest gently to such people, my good ... Prudence understood as ruthless self-interest, and therefore is an ethical catastrophe. The right also believes that ...
... Prudence Only.” Mistaken yet again—not that all philosophy is useful. I suggest gently to such people, my good ... Prudence understood as ruthless self-interest, and therefore is an ethical catastrophe. The right also believes that ...
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... Prudence Only. It has not followed Prudence Only over its short history as the ruling ideology of our economies. Prudence Only is not how it actually works. Property is not theft—yet neither is property everything there is. Ruthless ...
... Prudence Only. It has not followed Prudence Only over its short history as the ruling ideology of our economies. Prudence Only is not how it actually works. Property is not theft—yet neither is property everything there is. Ruthless ...
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... Prudence Only, Wall Street's “greed is good.” Bourgeois theorists, in other words, overstressed the virtue of prudence. The theoretical impulse to collapse everything into prudence is as a brief for the bourgeois virtues 11.
... Prudence Only, Wall Street's “greed is good.” Bourgeois theorists, in other words, overstressed the virtue of prudence. The theoretical impulse to collapse everything into prudence is as a brief for the bourgeois virtues 11.
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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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