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The bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce

Title
The bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce / Deirdre N. McCloskey.
Author
McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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xviii, 616 pages; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Ethics for an age of commerce
Subject
  • Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Commerce > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Social ethics > History
  • Business ethics > History
  • Virtues > History
  • Economic history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [557]-588) and index.
Contents
Apology : a brief for the bourgeois virtues -- Appeal -- 1. The very word "virtue" -- 2. The very word "bourgeois" -- 3. On not being spooked by the word "bourgeois" -- 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 -- 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 -- 16. The good of courage -- 17. Anachronistic courage in the bourgeoisie -- 18. Taciturn courage against the "feminine" -- 19. Bourgeois vs. Queer -- 20. Balancing courage -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
ISBN
0226556638 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005029657
OCLC
  • OCM62085460
  • SCSB-5260151
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries