The bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce, Deirdre N. McCloskey

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The bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce, Deirdre N. McCloskey

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ethics for an age of commerce

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Deirdre N. McCloskey

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• The bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce

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• Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [557]-588) and index

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Contents

• Probatio A : Modern capitalism makes us richer
• 4.
• Probatio B : And lets us live longer
• 5.
• Probatio C : And improve our ethics
• 6.
• Refutatio : Anticapitalism is bad for us
• 7.
• Peroratio
• Appeal
• Preface
• 1.
• The very word "virtue"
• 2.
• The very word "bourgeois:
• 3.
• On not being spooked by the word "bourgeois"
• pt. 1.
• The Christian and feminine virtues : love
• 4.
• The first virtue : love profane and sacred
• Acknowledgments
• 5.
• Love and the transcendent
• 6.
• Sweet love vs. interest
• 7.
• Bourgeois economists against love
• 8.
• Love and the bourgeoisie
• 9.
• Solidarity regained
• Apology : A brief for the bourgeois virtues
• pt. 2.
• The Christian and feminine virtues : faith and hope
• 10.
• Faith as identity
• 11.
• Hope and its banishment
• 12.
• Against the sacred
• 13.
• Van Gogh and the transcendent profane
• 1.
• 14.
• Humility and truth
• 15.
• Economic theology
• pt. 3.
• The pagan and masculine virtues : courage, with temperance
• 16.
• The good of courage
• 17.
• Anachronistic courage in the bourgeoisie
• Exordium : the good bourgeois
• 18.
• Taciturn courage against the "feminine"
• 19.
• Bourgeois vs. queer
• 20.
• Balancing courage
• 2.
• Narratio : How ethics fell
• 3.
• 24.
• Evil as imbalance, inner and outer : temperance and justice
• 25.
• The pagan-ethical bourgeois
• pt. 5.
• Systematizing the seven virtues
• 26.
• The system of the virtues
• 27.
• A philosophical psychology?
• pt. 4.
• 28.
• Ethical striving
• 29.
• Ethical realism
• 30.
• Against reduction
• 31.
• Character(s)
• 32.
• Antimonism again
• The androgynous virtues : prudence and justice
• 33.
• Why not one virtue?
• 34.
• Dropping the virtues, 1532-1958
• 35.
• Other lists
• 36.
• Eastern and other ways
• 37.
• Needing virtues
• 21.
• pt. 6.
• The bourgeois uses of the virtues
• 38.
• P & S and the capitalist life
• 39.
• Sacred reasons
• 40.
• Not by P alone
• 41.
• The myth of modern rationality
• Prudence is a virtue
• 42.
• God's deal
• 43.
• Necessary excess?
• 44.
• good work
• 45.
• Wage slavery
• 46.
• The rich
• 22.
• 47.
• Good barons
• 48.
• The anxieties of bourgeois virtues
• Postscript : The unfinished case for the bourgeois virtues
• Notes
• Works cited
• Index
• The monomania of Immanuel Kant
• 23.
• The storied character of virtue

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24 cm

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xviii, 616 pages

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9780226556635

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