Beyond self-interest : a personalist approach to human action
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Beyond self-interest : a personalist approach to human action
(Religion, politics, and society in the new millennium)(Lexington books)(Foundations of economic personalism)
Lexington Books, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119) and index
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ISBN 9780739101827
Description
Foundations of Economic Personalism is a series of three book-length monographs, each closely examining a significant dimension of the Center for Economic Personalism's unique synthesis of Christian personalism and free-economic market theory. In the aftermath of the momentous geo-political and economic changes of the late 1980s, a small group of Christian social ethicists began to converse with free-market economists over the morality of market activity. This interdisciplinary exchange eventually led to the founding of a new academic subdiscipline under the rubric of economic personalism. These scholars attempt to integrate economic theory, history, and methodology with Christian personalism's stress upon human dignity, humane social structures, and social justice. This volume presents the methodological and theoretical foundations for economic personalism through a detailed investigation of human action from two different, yet complementary perspectives: from the personalist perspective of Karol Wojtyla in the Acting Person (1969), and the free-market perspective of Ludwig von Mises in Human Action (1949). By comparing and contrasting the viewpoints of Wojtyla and Mises, the authors develop a comprehensive praxeology (i.e., a theory of human action) capable of analyzing human action from moral and economic perspectives. Beyond Self-Interest illustrates how a unified praxeology could encourage more sustained analysis of the moral dimensions of economic activity while simultaneously softening the utilitarian prejudice of contemporary economic analysis.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Theoretical Foundations Chapter 2 Ludwig Von Mises on Human Action Chapter 3 Karol Wojtyla on the Acting Person Chapter 4 Beyond Dichotomies: Mises' and Wojtyla's Anthropologies and Axiologies Chapter 5 A New Praxeology Chapter 6 Conclusion
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: pbk ISBN 9780739101834
Description
Foundations of Economic Personalism is a series of three book-length monographs, each closely examining a significant dimension of the Center for Economic Personalism's unique synthesis of Christian personalism and free-economic market theory. In the aftermath of the momentous geo-political and economic changes of the late 1980s, a small group of Christian social ethicists began to converse with free-market economists over the morality of market activity. This interdisciplinary exchange eventually led to the founding of a new academic subdiscipline under the rubric of economic personalism. These scholars attempt to integrate economic theory, history, and methodology with Christian personalism's stress upon human dignity, humane social structures, and social justice. This volume presents the methodological and theoretical foundations for economic personalism through a detailed investigation of human action from two different, yet complementary perspectives: from the personalist perspective of Karol Wojtyla in the Acting Person (1969), and the free-market perspective of Ludwig von Mises in Human Action (1949).
By comparing and contrasting the viewpoints of Wojtyla and Mises, the authors develop a comprehensive praxeology (i.e., a theory of human action) capable of analyzing human action from moral and economic perspectives. Beyond Self-Interest illustrates how a unified praxeology could encourage more sustained analysis of the moral dimensions of economic activity while simultaneously softening the utilitarian prejudice of contemporary economic analysis.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Theoretical Foundations Chapter 2 Ludwig Von Mises on Human Action Chapter 3 Karol Wojtyla on the Acting Person Chapter 4 Beyond Dichotomies: Mises' and Wojtyla's Anthropologies and Axiologies Chapter 5 A New Praxeology Chapter 6 Conclusion
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