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, Menckens booboisie and David Brookss bobosall 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 McCloskeys The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskeys sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realitiesfrom Plato to Barbara Ehrenreichoverturns 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 capitalisms 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 lifes work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalismand a surprising page-turner. |
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... Social ethicsHistory. 4. Business ethicsHistory. 5. VirtuesHistory. 6. Economic history. I. Title: Ethics for an age of commerce. II. Title. HB501.M5534 2006 174dc22 2005029657 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum ...
... Social ethicsHistory. 4. Business ethicsHistory. 5. VirtuesHistory. 6. Economic history. I. Title: Ethics for an age of commerce. II. Title. HB501.M5534 2006 174dc22 2005029657 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum ...
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... social, and cultural legacy, lodged in the phrase 'moral sentiments.'1 We fewlagging many decades behind sociologists and social psychologists and literary folkhave finally noticed the ethical soil in which an economy grows. We came ...
... social, and cultural legacy, lodged in the phrase 'moral sentiments.'1 We fewlagging many decades behind sociologists and social psychologists and literary folkhave finally noticed the ethical soil in which an economy grows. We came ...
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... Social and Political Theory and Economics Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, the Institute for Historical Research (Senate House, London), the University of Western Michigan, Indiana ...
... Social and Political Theory and Economics Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, the Institute for Historical Research (Senate House, London), the University of Western Michigan, Indiana ...
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... Social Science telephoned me in far Iowa and asked me for the title. I replied, Bourgeois Virtue. She pausedstartled it seemed, and then ... laughed. My purpose is to examine her laughter, with sympathy but with attention, to find ...
... Social Science telephoned me in far Iowa and asked me for the title. I replied, Bourgeois Virtue. She pausedstartled it seemed, and then ... laughed. My purpose is to examine her laughter, with sympathy but with attention, to find ...
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... social world.11 This too is mistakennot that I think everything marketed, understand, is good. College term papers and Asian children are for sale, and shouldn't be. I told you I was wishy-washy. Or from the conservative right, John ...
... social world.11 This too is mistakennot that I think everything marketed, understand, is good. College term papers and Asian children are for sale, and shouldn't be. I told you I was wishy-washy. Or from the conservative right, John ...
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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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