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Luigino Bruni and Robert Sugden have provided a normative defense of markets from a virtue ethics perspective. They interpret market exchange as being a practice in the sense of Alasdair MacIntyre. For Bruni and Sugden, the telos of a market is mutual benefit and a market virtue is a character trait or disposition that contributes to the realization of this benefit. They regard market virtues as embodying a moral attitude towards market interactions that is characterized by reciprocity. For MacIntyre, this is a partial account of a virtue. To qualify as a virtue, it is also necessary that it contributes to the good of an individual’s life taken as a whole and to the social tradition in which both practices and individuals are embedded. We adopt MacIntye’s understanding of a virtue and consider the extent to which Bruni and Sugden’s account of market virtues is compatible with respecting the fundamental human good of dignity in Kant’s sense of this term.

ISBN

978-981-97-0518-4

Editor(s)

Reiko Gotoh

Start Page

183

Publication Date

6-22-2024

Publisher

Springer

City

Singapore

Keywords

Kantian dignity, MacIntyrean practices, Market virtues, Virtue ethics, Voluntary exchange

Disciplines

Economics | Philosophy | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Comments

This book is published under the OA CC-BY 4.0 license.

Market Virtues and Respect for Human Dignity

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