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Reviving the love for economic justice : foul was never fair / Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ossewaarde-Lowtoo, Roshnee, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Economics.
- Social justice.
- Social Justice.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- In this book, Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo explores ways to reverse the cultural preference for utility and wealth over the democratic ideals of justice and civic friendship. She argues that economies and markets can be legitimately subordinated to the ideal of fellowship because human experience reveals love as the telos of human existence.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Facing Our Undemocratic Realities
- A Phenomenology of Our Economic Lives
- From Dominance to Reverence
- Notes
- Chapter 1: From the Struggle for Existence to Communion
- The Noneconomic Roots of Economism
- Justice as the Fulfilment of Needs
- Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion
- Chapter 2: The Primacy of Love
- Justice versus Love?
- Augustine's Mixed Legacy
- Between Idealism and Fatalism
- The Motive Power of the Infinite
- Tensions and Conflicts
- Chapter 3: Justice Begins with Oneself
- From Minimal Selves to Wholesome Selves
- The Well-Ordered Soul
- Augustinian Realism and the Self
- An Active Conscience
- The Caring Self
- Chapter 4: Reconciling Utility and Justice
- The Perennial Conflict between Utility and Justice
- The Bourgeois Deletion of the Conflict between Justice and Wealth
- The Goodness of Limits
- The Illusion of Fair Markets
- Re-Embedding the Market
- Chapter 5: Coping with Existential Insecurity
- Existential Mistrust
- Primary Religion
- Work Endowed with Finality
- Trustworthy Leadership
- The Creation of Organic Unity
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-2699-6
- 1-7936-4211-7
- OCLC:
- 1266205654
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