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- Title
SOURCES OF VIRTUE: THE MARKET AND THE COMMUNITY.
- Authors
Shaw, Bill
- Abstract
Virtues are habits of character that advance excellence in all of ones endeavors. In the Aristotelian formulation, training in the virtues is driven by a sense of the "good," that is, by a widely shared agreement on the components of a good society and on the roles (and appropriate virtues or excellencies) of the "social animals" that energize that society. In the modern era, however, a strong sense of community has been much diminished. Freedom from the restraints of the Church and other social institutions and an emphasis on individual autonomy has fostered a different ethical perspective, a perspective in which the market enters importantly into one's conception of the good. Does the market generate virtues which in turn sustain it? What guides the development of virtue in market economies that are entering the "information superhighway," and a new millennium as well?
- Publication
Business Ethics Quarterly, 1997, Vol 7, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
1052-150X
- Publication type
Academic Journal