| Description |
xviii, 616 pages : illustrations, ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [557]-588) and index. |
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Apology : A brief for the bourgeois virtues -- 1. Exordium : the good bourgeois -- 2. Narratio : How ethics fell -- 3. 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 -- 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 -- 5. Love and the transcendent -- 6. Sweet love vs. interest -- 7. Bourgeois economists against love -- 8. Love and the bourgeoisie -- 9. Solidarity regained -- 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 -- 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 -- 18. Taciturn courage against the "feminine" -- 19. Bourgeois vs. queer -- 20. Balancing courage -- |
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pt. 4. The androgynous virtues : prudence and justice -- 21. Prudence is a virtue -- 22. The monomania of Immanuel Kant -- 23. The storied character of virtue -- 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? -- 28. Ethical striving -- 29. Ethical realism -- 30. Against reduction -- 31. Character(s) -- 32. Antimonism again -- 33. Why not one virtue? -- 34. Dropping the virtues, 1532-1958 -- 35. Other lists -- 36. Eastern and other ways -- 37. Needing virtues -- 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 -- 42. God's deal -- 43. Necessary excess? -- 44. good work -- 45. Wage slavery -- 46. The rich -- 47. Good barons -- 48. The anxieties of bourgeois virtues -- Postscript : The unfinished case for the bourgeois virtues -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index. |
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Commerce -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Social ethics -- History.
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Business ethics -- History.
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Virtues -- History.
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Economic history.
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| Added Title |
Ethics for an age of commerce |
| ISBN |
0226556638 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780226556635 cloth alkaline paper |
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