Ethics, Markets, and MacIntyre

Bibliographic Data

ID7098891
AuthorsRussell Keat (corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume30
Issue1
Pages243-257
Publication date2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnalyse & Kritik (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0171-5860 • E-ISSN: 2365-9858
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/auk-2008-0115
OpenAlexW2377128516
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

MacIntyre’s theory of practices, institutions, and their respective kinds of goods, has revived and enriched the ethical critique of market economies, and his view of politics as centrally concerned with common goods and human flourishing presents a major challenge to neutralist liberal theorists’ attempts to exclude distinctively ethical considerations from political deliberation. However, the rejection of neutrality does not entail the rejection of liberalism tout court: questions of human flourishing may be accorded a legitimate role in political decisions-including those about economic systems - provided that the powers of the state remain subject to certain recognizably liberal constraints. Further, although neutralist liberals often defend market economies on the mistaken grounds that they alone are consistent with the principle of ethical neutrality, a non-neutralist defence of them should not be ruled out, especially if the substantive theory of goods used to evaluate them is somewhat less restrictive than MacIntyre’s

Deliberation · Economics · Flourishing · Law and economics · Liberalism · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory