On civilizing capitalism / Brian Ellis.
2023
CB19
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Title
On civilizing capitalism / Brian Ellis.
ISBN
9783031296819 (electronic bk.)
3031296818 (electronic bk.)
9783031296802
303129680X
3031296818 (electronic bk.)
9783031296802
303129680X
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-29681-9 doi
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CB19
Dewey Decimal Classification
901
Summary
This book shows how modern political, economic and moral theory, including our ideas of liberty and individualism, are trapped in 17th century notions of intuitive reasoning and not informed by modern scientific understanding. Brian Ellis starts with a re-appraisal of the founding of the United Nations and the political and economic policies of the post-war reconstruction period. He then shows how this period, despite its many faults, embodied a philosophy more closely embedded in scientific realism than dominant theories of either left or right today. He goes on to develop this philosophy, meticulously, demolishing theories of Rawls, Nozick and others along the way. The result is a philosophy that investigates how a society actually works, supports evidence-based economics and can better enable human beings to flourish. It is a philosophy that can also accommodate the historical differences between societies and their different, but parallel, development strategies over time. Brian Ellis is a leading expert in the history and philosophy of science with wide-ranging expertise in political, ethical and economic philosophy, the philosophy of mind and action, logic and probability theory. He is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, at La Trobe University, and former Professorial fellow, University of Melbourne.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Evolution and Structure
Chapter 2. Realism in Social Theory
Chapter 3. Social Morality
Chapter 4. First Philosophy
Chapter 5. Social Democracy and Social Progress
Chapter 6. The Secular States
Chapter 7. Eudaimonism: The Flourishing of Human Kind
Chapter 8. Liberty
Chapter 9. Rights
Chapter 10. Individualism
Chapter 11. Social Contracts
Chapter 12. Humanistic Ethics
Chapter 13. The New Welfare State
Chapter 14. The New World.
Chapter 2. Realism in Social Theory
Chapter 3. Social Morality
Chapter 4. First Philosophy
Chapter 5. Social Democracy and Social Progress
Chapter 6. The Secular States
Chapter 7. Eudaimonism: The Flourishing of Human Kind
Chapter 8. Liberty
Chapter 9. Rights
Chapter 10. Individualism
Chapter 11. Social Contracts
Chapter 12. Humanistic Ethics
Chapter 13. The New Welfare State
Chapter 14. The New World.