The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of CommerceUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010 M03 15 - 636 páginas 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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... society, even a commercial one. For instance, Faith—who you are. Hope and Its Banishment 160 Hope in a commercial society is mobility. Its transcendent version makes the clerisy uneasy. Against the Sacred 167 Religious Hope and faith ...
... society, even a commercial one. For instance, Faith—who you are. Hope and Its Banishment 160 Hope in a commercial society is mobility. Its transcendent version makes the clerisy uneasy. Against the Sacred 167 Religious Hope and faith ...
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... society: temperance and justice. The Pagan-Ethical Bourgeois 290 The four pagan virtues, like the three Christian, can fit a commercial society, as in Amsterdam's City Hall. Part 5 SYSTEMATIZING THE SEVEN VIRTUES 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ...
... society: temperance and justice. The Pagan-Ethical Bourgeois 290 The four pagan virtues, like the three Christian, can fit a commercial society, as in Amsterdam's City Hall. Part 5 SYSTEMATIZING THE SEVEN VIRTUES 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ...
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... society . The next , Bourgeois Towns : How a Capi- talist 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 ...
... society . The next , Bourgeois Towns : How a Capi- talist 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 ...
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... Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. It was a pleasure to bring these notions to a nonacademic audi- ence in Colorado at the 56th Annual Conference on World Affairs at Boulder in April 2002. I thank president Elizabeth Hoffman ...
... Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. It was a pleasure to bring these notions to a nonacademic audi- ence in Colorado at the 56th Annual Conference on World Affairs at Boulder in April 2002. I thank president Elizabeth Hoffman ...
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... society at the outset to be bad by any standard higher than successful greed . Such a definition makes pointless an inquiry into the good and bad of modern commercial society . I think this is what economists like Douglass North ...
... society at the outset to be bad by any standard higher than successful greed . Such a definition makes pointless an inquiry into the good and bad of modern commercial society . I think this is what economists like Douglass North ...
Contenido
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 |
Works Cited | 557 |
Index | 589 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 264 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Página 477 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 8 - If we were to prophesy that in the year 1930 a population of fifty millions, better fed, clad and lodged than the English of our time, will cover these islands, that Sussex and Huntingdonshire will be wealthier than the wealthiest parts of the...
Página 94 - To MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
Página 120 - The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of ; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour. The...
Página 192 - But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.
Página 160 - To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world — and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
Página 164 - Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? — Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . . These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.
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