Bourgeois Virtues Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Name: Bourgeois Virtues Ethics for an Age of Commerce
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ISBN: 9780226556642

ISBN-10: 0226556646

ISBN-13: 9780226556642

Edition: 2007

Authors: Deirdre N. McCloskey

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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 responsible for everything from financial and moral poverty to world wars and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey's "The Bourgeois Virtues," a magnum opus offering a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 634
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Apology: A Brief for the Bourgeois Virtues



Exordium: The Good Bourgeois



Narratio: How Ethics Fell



Probatio A: Modern Capitalism Makes Us Richer



Probatio B: And Lets Us Live Longer



Probatio C: And Improves Our Ethics



Refutatio: Anticapitalism Is Bad for Us



Peroratio



The Very Word "Virtue"



The Very Word "Bourgeois"



On Not Being Spooked by the Word "Bourgeois"



The Christian and Feminine Virtues: Love



The First Virtue: Love Profane and Sacred



Love and the Transcendent



Sweet Love vs. Interest



Bourgeois Economists against Love



Love and the Bourgeoisie



The Christian and Feminine Virtues: Faith and Hope



Faith as Identity



Hope and Its Banishment



Against the Sacred



Van Gogh and the Transcendent Profane



Humility and Truth



Economic Theology



The Pagan and Masculine Virtues: Courage, with Temperance



The Good of Courage



Anachronistic Courage in the Bourgeoisie



Taciturn Courage against the "Feminine"



Bourgeois vs. Queer



Balancing Courage



Prudence Is a Virtue



The Monomania of Immanuel Kant



The Storied Character of Virtue



Evil as Imbalance, Inner and Outer: Temperance and Justice



The Pagan-Ethical Bourgeois



Systematizing the Seven Virtues



The System of the Virtues



A Philosophical Psychology?



Ethical Striving



Ethical Realism



Against Reduction



Character(s)



Antimonism Again



Dropping the Virtues, 1532-1958



Other Lists



Eastern and Other Ways



Needing Virtues



The Bourgeois Uses of the Virtues



P and the Capitalist Life



Sacred Reasons



Not by P Alone



The Myth of Modern Rati