Sean Doherty
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198703334
- eISBN:
- 9780191772542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703334.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
This chapter sketches Arthur Rich’s life and work, and situates his thought contextually. It indicates some of the lines of the development of Rich’s thought, up to the publication of the two volumes ...
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This chapter sketches Arthur Rich’s life and work, and situates his thought contextually. It indicates some of the lines of the development of Rich’s thought, up to the publication of the two volumes of Wirtschaftsethik. It then presents lineaments of Rich’s theological method as set out in Wirtschaftsethik, such as Rich’s understanding of what he calls ‘the basic ethical question’, the general human moral experience, his approach to Scripture, and his adoption of aspects of the thought of Max Weber and John Rawls. This chapter also notes ways in which Rich’s method is representative of other contributions to theological economic ethics, in order to suggest ways in which our reading of Rich has implications for wider trends in theological ethics. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of Rich’s conclusions.Less
This chapter sketches Arthur Rich’s life and work, and situates his thought contextually. It indicates some of the lines of the development of Rich’s thought, up to the publication of the two volumes of Wirtschaftsethik. It then presents lineaments of Rich’s theological method as set out in Wirtschaftsethik, such as Rich’s understanding of what he calls ‘the basic ethical question’, the general human moral experience, his approach to Scripture, and his adoption of aspects of the thought of Max Weber and John Rawls. This chapter also notes ways in which Rich’s method is representative of other contributions to theological economic ethics, in order to suggest ways in which our reading of Rich has implications for wider trends in theological ethics. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of Rich’s conclusions.
Sean Doherty
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198703334
- eISBN:
- 9780191772542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703334.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
This chapter shows how study of the method of Luther, a skilful pre-modern theological practitioner, can provide a resource for building self-awareness and self-criticism of modern theological ...
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This chapter shows how study of the method of Luther, a skilful pre-modern theological practitioner, can provide a resource for building self-awareness and self-criticism of modern theological assumptions and methods, by comparing Luther’s method to Rich’s approach, in order to note its potential strengths and weaknesses. It examines matters such as Rich’s concept of ethics, his treatment of social ethics as the primary matrix for ethics, his anthropology and its implications for his method, his doctrine of eschatology, and his characterization of the relationship of ethics to the discipline of economics. The chapter shows that Rich is far too ready to take economics for granted as a morally neutral science, and that Luther’s ostensibly more individual approach to ethics enables him to adopt far more socially radical conclusions to Rich.Less
This chapter shows how study of the method of Luther, a skilful pre-modern theological practitioner, can provide a resource for building self-awareness and self-criticism of modern theological assumptions and methods, by comparing Luther’s method to Rich’s approach, in order to note its potential strengths and weaknesses. It examines matters such as Rich’s concept of ethics, his treatment of social ethics as the primary matrix for ethics, his anthropology and its implications for his method, his doctrine of eschatology, and his characterization of the relationship of ethics to the discipline of economics. The chapter shows that Rich is far too ready to take economics for granted as a morally neutral science, and that Luther’s ostensibly more individual approach to ethics enables him to adopt far more socially radical conclusions to Rich.
Peter Ghosh
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198702528
- eISBN:
- 9780191772214
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198702528.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, History of Ideas
This chapter explores the theme of religion that descends from the PE. It demonstrates an essential continuity between the ideas presented in the PE in 1904–5, and those advanced in his second wave ...
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This chapter explores the theme of religion that descends from the PE. It demonstrates an essential continuity between the ideas presented in the PE in 1904–5, and those advanced in his second wave of religious writing from 1912 onwards (the Sociology of Religion and the ‘Economic Ethics of the World Religions’). It discusses the physical continuity and discontinuity between the PE and the ‘Economic Ethics’, and the qualitative differences between the PE and the later religious writings.Less
This chapter explores the theme of religion that descends from the PE. It demonstrates an essential continuity between the ideas presented in the PE in 1904–5, and those advanced in his second wave of religious writing from 1912 onwards (the Sociology of Religion and the ‘Economic Ethics of the World Religions’). It discusses the physical continuity and discontinuity between the PE and the ‘Economic Ethics’, and the qualitative differences between the PE and the later religious writings.
Sean Doherty
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198703334
- eISBN:
- 9780191772542
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703334.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
This book seeks to expand the self-critical resources of contemporary theological economic ethics by bringing the method of a pre-modern thinker, Martin Luther (1483–1546), into interaction with that ...
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This book seeks to expand the self-critical resources of contemporary theological economic ethics by bringing the method of a pre-modern thinker, Martin Luther (1483–1546), into interaction with that of a modern contribution to social ethics, the Swiss theologian Arthur Rich (1910–92). The work is undertaken through a close engagement with a selected publication of Luther (his 1519–20 Großer Sermon von dem Wucher) and of Rich (his masterwork, Wirtschaftsethik, published in two volumes in 1984 and 1990 respectively). It is the first substantial treatment in English of Rich’s magnum opus. The book introduces Luther’s sermon on usury, and situates it in its context. It then gives a commentary on Luther’s method, discussing its genre, Luther’s hermeneutics, and how he brings key theological motifs to bear on a particular economic question. The book proceeds to sketch Arthur Rich’s life and work, and presents Rich’s method as set out in Wirtschaftsethik. It discusses his understanding of ethics, his approach to Scripture, and his adoption of the thought of Max Weber and John Rawls. Next, the book brings its study of Luther to bear on Rich’s approach, noting strengths and weaknesses of Rich’s method. It questions some of Rich’s assumptions, and notes ways in which a more self-critical approach could have made his project more successful. Finally, the book makes tentative suggestions as to the wider applicability of the critical questions posed to Rich’s method by the analysis of Luther.Less
This book seeks to expand the self-critical resources of contemporary theological economic ethics by bringing the method of a pre-modern thinker, Martin Luther (1483–1546), into interaction with that of a modern contribution to social ethics, the Swiss theologian Arthur Rich (1910–92). The work is undertaken through a close engagement with a selected publication of Luther (his 1519–20 Großer Sermon von dem Wucher) and of Rich (his masterwork, Wirtschaftsethik, published in two volumes in 1984 and 1990 respectively). It is the first substantial treatment in English of Rich’s magnum opus. The book introduces Luther’s sermon on usury, and situates it in its context. It then gives a commentary on Luther’s method, discussing its genre, Luther’s hermeneutics, and how he brings key theological motifs to bear on a particular economic question. The book proceeds to sketch Arthur Rich’s life and work, and presents Rich’s method as set out in Wirtschaftsethik. It discusses his understanding of ethics, his approach to Scripture, and his adoption of the thought of Max Weber and John Rawls. Next, the book brings its study of Luther to bear on Rich’s approach, noting strengths and weaknesses of Rich’s method. It questions some of Rich’s assumptions, and notes ways in which a more self-critical approach could have made his project more successful. Finally, the book makes tentative suggestions as to the wider applicability of the critical questions posed to Rich’s method by the analysis of Luther.
Jane Garnett
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199699704
- eISBN:
- 9780191831812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699704.003.0023
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
This chapter demonstrates the centrality of debates about economic and social ethics to the construction of Anglican national and transnational identities. It teases out the cross-cultural character ...
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This chapter demonstrates the centrality of debates about economic and social ethics to the construction of Anglican national and transnational identities. It teases out the cross-cultural character of these debates, and argues for the development of complex and sophisticated traditions of engagement across the theological spectrum, which probed the interrelationships between individual and social morality. Reflection on economic and social thought ran through sermons, tracts, lectures, biographies, periodical literature, and treatises on philosophy, theology, and history, as well as informing the work of a wide range of societies, organizations, and philanthropic agencies. Anglican critiques of political economy recognized the Church’s responsibility to identify and confront the growing challenges of capitalism, and to provide frameworks for thinking constructively about the quality of life.Less
This chapter demonstrates the centrality of debates about economic and social ethics to the construction of Anglican national and transnational identities. It teases out the cross-cultural character of these debates, and argues for the development of complex and sophisticated traditions of engagement across the theological spectrum, which probed the interrelationships between individual and social morality. Reflection on economic and social thought ran through sermons, tracts, lectures, biographies, periodical literature, and treatises on philosophy, theology, and history, as well as informing the work of a wide range of societies, organizations, and philanthropic agencies. Anglican critiques of political economy recognized the Church’s responsibility to identify and confront the growing challenges of capitalism, and to provide frameworks for thinking constructively about the quality of life.
Sean Doherty
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198703334
- eISBN:
- 9780191772542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703334.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
This conclusion summarizes the argument, and makes tentative suggestions as to the wider applicability of the critical questions posed to Rich’s method by the analysis of Luther. It therefore shows ...
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This conclusion summarizes the argument, and makes tentative suggestions as to the wider applicability of the critical questions posed to Rich’s method by the analysis of Luther. It therefore shows how the study of the pre-modern Luther in relation to the modern Rich has provided resources for modern self-critical reflection on method.Less
This conclusion summarizes the argument, and makes tentative suggestions as to the wider applicability of the critical questions posed to Rich’s method by the analysis of Luther. It therefore shows how the study of the pre-modern Luther in relation to the modern Rich has provided resources for modern self-critical reflection on method.
Kenneth A. Reinert
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190499440
- eISBN:
- 9780190499471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190499440.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter describes the basic goods approach to global policy priorities. It reviews the treatment of human need in political philosophy, economics, and social policy and defines basic goods as ...
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This chapter describes the basic goods approach to global policy priorities. It reviews the treatment of human need in political philosophy, economics, and social policy and defines basic goods as those goods and services that meet objective human needs. The chapter identifies a set of basic goods that includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. It gives a sense of the magnitudes of deprivations for each of these basic goods. The chapter goes on to link the basic goods approach to minimalist ethics and subsistence rights, to assess the role of basic goods provision in growth processes, and to assess general approaches to basic goods provision.Less
This chapter describes the basic goods approach to global policy priorities. It reviews the treatment of human need in political philosophy, economics, and social policy and defines basic goods as those goods and services that meet objective human needs. The chapter identifies a set of basic goods that includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. It gives a sense of the magnitudes of deprivations for each of these basic goods. The chapter goes on to link the basic goods approach to minimalist ethics and subsistence rights, to assess the role of basic goods provision in growth processes, and to assess general approaches to basic goods provision.
Gerda Roelvink
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816676170
- eISBN:
- 9781452954240
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676170.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This book explores the question of how contemporary collectives are creating diverse, new forms of creative economies that arrange diverse peoples, animals, natural environments, technologies and ...
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This book explores the question of how contemporary collectives are creating diverse, new forms of creative economies that arrange diverse peoples, animals, natural environments, technologies and others around economic concerns. Like older forms of left association, these collectives seek to bring about change. They do so, however, not by working to overthrow and replace an underlying capitalist ‘system’ with an equally totalising alternative like socialism, but by experimenting with and inventing diverse new forms of economic life in the present. This book examines how economic concerns are formed and the techniques through which concerned groups are gathered and come to create alternative economies. In doing so it maps out a geography of collective action. It takes actor network theories of action as a starting point for thinking about how collective action brings the new into being, and argues that contemporary collectives are best theorised as hybrid collectives. This approach enables an understanding of how collectives initiate change and provides a view to the diverse forces through which they do so, including through the generation of non-discursive bodily experiences such as affects and emotions. In particular, this book argues that the relational and geographical nature of performative action is central to understanding the way in which hybrid collectives create alternative economies.Less
This book explores the question of how contemporary collectives are creating diverse, new forms of creative economies that arrange diverse peoples, animals, natural environments, technologies and others around economic concerns. Like older forms of left association, these collectives seek to bring about change. They do so, however, not by working to overthrow and replace an underlying capitalist ‘system’ with an equally totalising alternative like socialism, but by experimenting with and inventing diverse new forms of economic life in the present. This book examines how economic concerns are formed and the techniques through which concerned groups are gathered and come to create alternative economies. In doing so it maps out a geography of collective action. It takes actor network theories of action as a starting point for thinking about how collective action brings the new into being, and argues that contemporary collectives are best theorised as hybrid collectives. This approach enables an understanding of how collectives initiate change and provides a view to the diverse forces through which they do so, including through the generation of non-discursive bodily experiences such as affects and emotions. In particular, this book argues that the relational and geographical nature of performative action is central to understanding the way in which hybrid collectives create alternative economies.
Kenneth A. Reinert
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190499440
- eISBN:
- 9780190499471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190499440.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This introductory chapter introduces the basic goods approach and its relationship to the standard growth perspective and the capabilities/human development perspective. It defines basic goods and ...
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This introductory chapter introduces the basic goods approach and its relationship to the standard growth perspective and the capabilities/human development perspective. It defines basic goods and services as those that meet central and objective human needs and argues in favor of sustained attempts that achieve their universal provision. It identifies a set of basic goods that includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. The chapter argues that what really matters about growth is the possibility that it will lead to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic goods and services. The hoped-for expansion of human capabilities and development is predicated on this expanded provision of basic goods, and the expanded provision of basic goods and services also can promote growth. In these ways, basic goods and services are a critical link between growth and human development.Less
This introductory chapter introduces the basic goods approach and its relationship to the standard growth perspective and the capabilities/human development perspective. It defines basic goods and services as those that meet central and objective human needs and argues in favor of sustained attempts that achieve their universal provision. It identifies a set of basic goods that includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. The chapter argues that what really matters about growth is the possibility that it will lead to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic goods and services. The hoped-for expansion of human capabilities and development is predicated on this expanded provision of basic goods, and the expanded provision of basic goods and services also can promote growth. In these ways, basic goods and services are a critical link between growth and human development.
Kenneth A. Reinert
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190499440
- eISBN:
- 9780190499471
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190499440.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This book argues in favor of an approach to global policy priorities that emphasizes the attempt to put a minimal set of basic goods and services into the hands of everyone. This universal provision ...
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This book argues in favor of an approach to global policy priorities that emphasizes the attempt to put a minimal set of basic goods and services into the hands of everyone. This universal provision of basic goods and services includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. The book argues that this policy focus is appropriate both for practical and ethical reasons, but that success in this provision will not be easy and therefore is no small hope. Basic goods and services meet central and objective human needs. The basic goods approach tries to form a bridge between the standard growth perspective on development and the capabilities/human development perspective. What really matters about growth is the possibility that growth will lead to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic goods and services, an outcome that is not always guaranteed. The hoped-for expansion of human capabilities and development is predicated on this expanded provision of basic goods, and the expanded provision of basic goods and services also can promote growth. In these ways, basic goods and services are critical link between growth and human development. The book explores each of the identified basic goods and services, the basic rights to them, and the many challenges to be overcome in their expanded provision.Less
This book argues in favor of an approach to global policy priorities that emphasizes the attempt to put a minimal set of basic goods and services into the hands of everyone. This universal provision of basic goods and services includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. The book argues that this policy focus is appropriate both for practical and ethical reasons, but that success in this provision will not be easy and therefore is no small hope. Basic goods and services meet central and objective human needs. The basic goods approach tries to form a bridge between the standard growth perspective on development and the capabilities/human development perspective. What really matters about growth is the possibility that growth will lead to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic goods and services, an outcome that is not always guaranteed. The hoped-for expansion of human capabilities and development is predicated on this expanded provision of basic goods, and the expanded provision of basic goods and services also can promote growth. In these ways, basic goods and services are critical link between growth and human development. The book explores each of the identified basic goods and services, the basic rights to them, and the many challenges to be overcome in their expanded provision.
Gerda Roelvink
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816676170
- eISBN:
- 9781452954240
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676170.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
The chapter explores ethical economic relationships further and the ontological possibilities they generate. In this chapter I turn to Karl Marx’s work on species being in which he uses the term ...
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The chapter explores ethical economic relationships further and the ontological possibilities they generate. In this chapter I turn to Karl Marx’s work on species being in which he uses the term dignity to refer to the kind of humanity realised in socially just economic forms.Less
The chapter explores ethical economic relationships further and the ontological possibilities they generate. In this chapter I turn to Karl Marx’s work on species being in which he uses the term dignity to refer to the kind of humanity realised in socially just economic forms.
Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi and Jennifer Phillips
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190456023
- eISBN:
- 9780190456054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190456023.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This dialogue brings together work on Rabbinic Judaism and Roman Catholicism to introduce the economic and feminist implications of the authors’ respective chapters on genetically modified organisms ...
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This dialogue brings together work on Rabbinic Judaism and Roman Catholicism to introduce the economic and feminist implications of the authors’ respective chapters on genetically modified organisms and Catholic environmental ethics. The authors frame ecological thriving, technological development, and the relation between the two as feminist concerns. Further, they consider the potential and/or limits of their source traditions for feminist engagement. Their discussion affirms the importance of naming unjust power structures, while cautioning against preemptive restrictions that may inhibit promising research and therefore undermine efforts to address injustice. This dialogue illuminates both the potential for innovation and the challenges in comparative religious ethical dialogue.Less
This dialogue brings together work on Rabbinic Judaism and Roman Catholicism to introduce the economic and feminist implications of the authors’ respective chapters on genetically modified organisms and Catholic environmental ethics. The authors frame ecological thriving, technological development, and the relation between the two as feminist concerns. Further, they consider the potential and/or limits of their source traditions for feminist engagement. Their discussion affirms the importance of naming unjust power structures, while cautioning against preemptive restrictions that may inhibit promising research and therefore undermine efforts to address injustice. This dialogue illuminates both the potential for innovation and the challenges in comparative religious ethical dialogue.
Kenneth A. Reinert
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190499440
- eISBN:
- 9780190499471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190499440.003.0012
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This concluding chapter reviews the basic goods approach, its intellectual sources, and its practical importance. It emphasizes the role of basic goods as basic rights and connects these basic ...
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This concluding chapter reviews the basic goods approach, its intellectual sources, and its practical importance. It emphasizes the role of basic goods as basic rights and connects these basic subsistence rights to the tradition of moral minimalism in political philosophy. It questions the claims of technological optimists and calls for a “rational pessimism” in the setting of global policy priorities. It also proposes a set of ten basic development goals to replace the current and often criticized sustainable development goals. It considers the feasibility of basic goods provision using back-of-the-envelope calculations, concluding that the goal of universal basic goods provision is indeed feasible.Less
This concluding chapter reviews the basic goods approach, its intellectual sources, and its practical importance. It emphasizes the role of basic goods as basic rights and connects these basic subsistence rights to the tradition of moral minimalism in political philosophy. It questions the claims of technological optimists and calls for a “rational pessimism” in the setting of global policy priorities. It also proposes a set of ten basic development goals to replace the current and often criticized sustainable development goals. It considers the feasibility of basic goods provision using back-of-the-envelope calculations, concluding that the goal of universal basic goods provision is indeed feasible.
