The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market

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Transaction Publishers - 219 pagini

Using the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Adam Smith as well as historical examples drawn from the last two centuries, Busch shows how the ideas initially proposed by these thinkers became reified as scientism, statism, and marketism-- systems of belief that a single mode of ordering could solve the riddle of society, and thereby supplant moral responsibility.

Busch contrasts this approach with concrete examples of successful attempts to extend democracy into these areas--to create multiple orderings-- so that moral responsibility is neither crushingly heavy on individuals nor unbearably light on society.

 

Cuprins

The Politics of Science and the Science of Politics
1
Development and the Problem of Order
5
A Digression on Method
7
Democratic Technocracy
9
The Moral Responsibility of the State
16
The Morality of the Marketplace
23
Three Paths from Moral Responsibility
27
Notes
31
The Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights
101
Education
108
Social Security
109
The Return of the State
110
Conclusions
115
Beyond the Leviathans
117
Statism
119
Marketism
122

The Technology of Power and the Power of Technology
33
The United States
35
The Soviet Union
47
From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution
56
Other Nations
63
The Critics
64
Bacon Lives
67
Notes
68
The State of the State
71
The Colonial Project
72
The Oppressive State and the State of Oppression
77
Statism with a Democratic Face
82
The Rise of the Private State
89
The State and the Individual
93
Conclusions
94
Notes
95
Selling the Market
97
The Irish Potato Famine
99
A Solution?
133
Beyond Scientism Statism and Marketism
135
Of Chickens and Eggs
136
Conclusions
145
Networks of Democracy
147
Politics with a Capital P
152
The Workplace
156
Science and Technology Choice
162
Education
168
Health Care
173
Arts
175
Media
176
Family
179
Law
184
Networks of Democracy
185
Notes
188
References
189
Index
207

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