Integrative economic ethics : foundations of a civilized market economy /
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| Author / Creator: | Ulrich, Peter, 1948- |
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| Uniform title: | Integrative Wirtschaftsethik. English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
| Description: | xiii, 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7190104 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Preface
- Translator's note
- Introduction: orientation in economic-ethical thinking
- Part I. Fundamental concepts of modern ethics and the approach of integrative economic ethics
- 1. The phenomenon of human morality: the normative logic of interpersonal relations
- 1.1. The moral disposition as part of the conditio humana
- 1.2. Morals and ethos as two sides of lived morality
- 1.3. Modern ethics and the problem of relativism
- 1.4. The humanistic core of the moral principle: the normative logic of interpersonal relations
- 1.5. The developmental stages of moral consciousness
- 2. The moral point of view: philosophical developmental lines of rational ethics
- 2.1. The Golden Rule and the Judaeo-Christian commandment to love one's neighbour
- 2.2. The standpoint of the impartial spectator (Adam Smith)
- 2.3. The categorical imperative (Immanuel Kant)
- 2.4. The rule-utilitarian generalization criterion
- 2.5. Discourse ethics
- 3. Morality and economic rationality: integrative economic ethics as the rational ethics of economic activity
- 3.1. Economic ethics as applied ethics?
- 3.2. Economic ethics as normative economics?
- 3.3. The integrative approach: economic ethics as critical reflection on the foundations of economic reason
- Part II. Reflections on the foundations of economic ethics I: a critique of economism
- 4. 'Inherent necessity' of competition? A critique of economic determinism
- 4.1. The origins of modern market economy: the calvinistic ethos as a context of motivation
- 4.2. The systemic character of modern market economy: the 'free' market as a coercive context
- 4.3. The partiality of inherent necessity and the economic-ethical problem of reasonable expectation
- 5. 'Morality' of the market? A critique of economic reductionism
- 5.1. Historical and doctrinal background I: the prestabilized harmony in the economic cosmos (classical period)
- 5.2. Historical and doctrinal background II: the utilitarian fiction of common good (early neoclassical period)
- 5.3. Methodological individualism and the normative logic of mutual advantage (pure economics)
- Part III. Reflections on the foundations of economic ethics II: rational economic activity and the lifeworld
- 6. The question of meaning: economic activity and the good life
- 6.1. The elementary sense of economic activity: securing the means of human subsistence
- 6.2. The advanced meaning of economic activity: furthering the abundance of human life
- 6.3. The discovery of personal meaning under conditions of competitive self-assertion
- 7. The question of legitimation: economic activity and the just social life
- 7.1. Fundamental moral rights as the ethical-political basis of legitimation
- 7.2. The well-ordered society and the conditions of legitimate inequality: on John Rawls's principles of justice
- 7.3. Economic citizenship rights as the basis of real freedom for all
- Part IV. A topology of economic ethics: the 'sites' of morality in economic life
- 8. Economic citizen's ethics
- 8.1. The basic problem of civic ethics: liberal society and republican virtue
- 8.2. Deliberative politics: the public sphere as the site of economic citizens' shared responsibility
- 8.3. Professional and private life as sites of economic citizens' self-commitment
- 9. Regulatory ethics
- 9.1. The basic problem of regulatory ethics: market logic and 'vital policy'
- 9.2. Deliberative order politics: the market framework as a site of morality - whose morality?
- 9.3. The global question: competition of national market frameworks or supranational sites of regulatory morality?
- 10. Corporate ethics
- 10.1. The basic problem of corporate ethics: 'profit principle' and legitimate business activity
- 10.2. Instrumentalist, charitable, corrective or integrative corporate ethics?
- 10.3. Deliberative corporate policy-making: the 'stakeholder dialogue' as a site of business morality
- 10.4. Elements of an integrative ethical programme for corporations
- Bibliography
- Index of subjects
- Index of names
