The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of CommerceUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. mar. 2010 - 634 sider 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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... lives. You will find here, in the vocabulary of Christianity, from the Greek for the defendant's side in a trial, an “apology” for capitalism in its American form. I do not mean “I'm sorry.” The book is an apologia in the theological ...
... lives. You will find here, in the vocabulary of Christianity, from the Greek for the defendant's side in a trial, an “apology” for capitalism in its American form. I do not mean “I'm sorry.” The book is an apologia in the theological ...
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... lives of virtue in the nonself-interested sense, too. The more common claim is that virtues support the market. Yes, I agree. Other economists have started to admit so. It's been hard, because it goes against our professional impulse to ...
... lives of virtue in the nonself-interested sense, too. The more common claim is that virtues support the market. Yes, I agree. Other economists have started to admit so. It's been hard, because it goes against our professional impulse to ...
Side 5
... lives? We came to Bradford in Yorkshire or to St. Joseph in Michigan and made good livings, honestly.” My implied readers are instead the theoreticians and the followers of theoreticians, what Coleridge and I call the “clerisy,” opinion ...
... lives? We came to Bradford in Yorkshire or to St. Joseph in Michigan and made good livings, honestly.” My implied readers are instead the theoreticians and the followers of theoreticians, what Coleridge and I call the “clerisy,” opinion ...
Side 6
... lives in your service. . . . You have to forgive us, for we have wronged you; we have sinned against you grievously.”9 If by contrast the doubters are on the City of London/Wall Street right, they believe that capitalism and profit are ...
... lives in your service. . . . You have to forgive us, for we have wronged you; we have sinned against you grievously.”9 If by contrast the doubters are on the City of London/Wall Street right, they believe that capitalism and profit are ...
Side 12
... lives as heroic courage or saintly love uncontaminated by bourgeois concerns. They pose as rejecting bourgeois ethics. Even so wise a man as the Israeli writer Amos Oz allows himself this sort of blast, at the “ancient Jewish diseases ...
... lives as heroic courage or saintly love uncontaminated by bourgeois concerns. They pose as rejecting bourgeois ethics. Even so wise a man as the Israeli writer Amos Oz allows himself this sort of blast, at the “ancient Jewish diseases ...
Indhold
1 | |
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 |
557 | |
589 | |
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