Reviving the Love for Economic Justice: Foul Was Never Fair

Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo

doi:10.5771/9781793642110

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In Reviving the Love for Economic Justice, Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo argues that the options for organizing economies are not limited to individualistic capitalism and collectivistic communism because the democratic commitment to human dignity requires the transcendence of the materialistic premises of both politico-economic arrangements. She therefore shifts the conversation to the more fundamental level of conflicting values and ideals, showing that the cultural and political failure to bring about humane economies can largely be blamed on the cultural preference for utility and wealth over justice and civic friendship. Ossewaarde-Lowtoo explores ways in which such cultural prejudice could be overcome so that the notion that humans are intrinsically related to each other and hence responsible for each other could gain ground. She argues that it is legitimate and realistic to hold out hope that both economies and markets can be subordinated to the higher goals of civic friendship and justice because human experience reveals love as the telos of human existence.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4210-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4211-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 158
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Facing Our Undemocratic Realities No access
2. A Phenomenology of Our Economic Lives No access
3. From Dominance to Reverence No access
4. Notes No access
1. The Noneconomic Roots of Economism No access
2. Justice as the Fulfilment of Needs No access
3. Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion No access
4. Notes No access
1. Justice versus Love? No access
2. Augustine’s Mixed Legacy No access
3. Between Idealism and Fatalism No access
4. The Motive Power of the Infinite No access
5. Tensions and Conflicts No access
6. Notes No access
1. From Minimal Selves to Wholesome Selves No access
2. The Well-Ordered Soul No access
3. Augustinian Realism and the Self No access
4. An Active Conscience No access
5. The Caring Self No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Perennial Conflict between Utility and Justice No access
2. The Bourgeois Deletion of the Conflict between Justice and Wealth No access
3. The Goodness of Limits No access
4. The Illusion of Fair Markets No access
5. Re-Embedding the Market No access
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1. Existential Mistrust No access
2. Primary Religion No access
3. Work Endowed with Finality No access
4. Trustworthy Leadership No access
5. The Creation of Organic Unity No access
6. Notes No access
Notes No access Pages 140 - 150
Index No access Pages 151 - 158