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Wealth in Western Thought

By Schervish, Paul G., Schervish, Paul G.

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Wealth in Western Thought

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Based on roundtable discussions by a variety of scholars over a two-year period, these essays explore the complex and often contradictory matrix of sentiments, feelings, and beliefs that frame America's contemporary social doctrine of wealth. The seven Boston College faculty members whose writings comprise this volume are professors of classics, economics, ethics, history, literature, scripture, and sociology. Each scholar reviews a a range of writings and narratives that enunciate definite theses about the genesis and prospects as well as the uses and abuses of wealth. Today, as the discussion of wealth creation and distribution become framed less frequently under the rubrics of capitalism and socialism, it is propitious to examine other pieces of the debate that come to us from our Western classical, biblical, literary, and ethical traditions. The talk for and against wealth, so well articulated by Adam Smith and Karl Marx, is only one axis on which this important Western motif turns. Schervish and his contributors enable us to consult several other texts that can guide our repositioning on the controversies surrounding the moral status of wealth and the wealthy.
Product details
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
1994-05-30
Publication Date:
1994-05-30
Publisher:
Praeger
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
027465243902759467700387965866
ISBN13:
9780275946777
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
7
Maximum Reading Age:
17
Weight:
600 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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