Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of SociobiologySpringer Science & Business Media, 15 may 1996 - 142 páginas This book publishes the English translation of texts that appeared first in Gennan in two separate booklets. Part One, The Ethics of Capitalism includ- ing the comment by JAMES M. BUCHANAN, has been published in Gennan under the title Ethik des Kapitalismus, Ttibingen (J.C.B. Mohr [paul Sie- beck)) 1982, 5th edition 1995, in the series "Walter Eucken Institut, Vort: rt1ge und Aufsatze", vol. 87. Part Two, Evolution and Society. A Critique of So- ciobiology, appeared first in German under the title Evolution und Gesell- schaft. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Soziobiologie, Ttibingen (J.e.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck)) 1984, 2nd edition 1989, in the same series, vol. 98. Part One of the book has been translated by the author, Part Two by DAVID AMBUEL. I should like to thank Liberty Fund Inc., Indianapolis, USA, for its sup- port of the translation of Part Two, Georg Siebeck of J.C.B. Mohr (paul Siebeck) Publishers, Ttibingen, for the pennission to publish the English translation of the two essays and to my co-workers at the Forschungsinstitut ftir Philosophie Hannover -The Hannover Institute of Philosophical Re- search, Hannover, Germany, for their support in editing this volume. |
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What Does Morality of an Economic System Mean? | 8 |
Chapter II The Development Toward Capitalism | 10 |
2 Freeing of the Economy from Moral Theology and Ethics | 15 |
Probabilism | 17 |
c The Prohibition of Charging Interest and Freedom of Contract | 19 |
katallaxia versus oikonomia | 21 |
b Teleology Mechanism and Reestablished Harmony | 24 |
katallaxia and Deism | 28 |
Introduction | 76 |
Chapter I The Concept and Program of Sociobiology | 79 |
Sociobiology as Bioeconomics | 85 |
2 Monocausality and Theory Imperialism | 86 |
3 The Gene as Investor | 88 |
Chapter III On the Ontology of the Theory of Evolution | 91 |
1 Gene Survival and Program Preservation as the Entelechy of Nature? | 92 |
2 Critique of Optimization Theoretical Reconstructions of Evolution in Sociobiology | 95 |
Conceptions of the Market Economy Models of Mechanism and Models of Interaction | 30 |
Morals in Capitalism or Are Morals Superfluous in a Working Market? | 32 |
The Coherence of Ethics and Economics | 34 |
2 The Need for Business Ethics | 39 |
The Morality of Capitalism and the Limits of Its Justification | 42 |
2 Limits of Subjectivism in the Theory of Values | 47 |
3 The Significance of the NonFinalisation of the Economy | 49 |
Some SocialPhilosophical Conclusions | 51 |
2 Freedom and Freedom of Choice | 53 |
3 The Necessity of a Social and Ethical Framework Tor Capitalism | 54 |
References | 56 |
The Morality of Capitalism Comment on Peter Koslowski The Ethics of Capitalism | 65 |
Section Two The Morality of Capitalism | 68 |
Evolution and Society A Critique of Sociobiology | 73 |
From the Preface to the First German Edition | 75 |
3 The Best of all Possible Worlds and the Impossibility of its Total Reconstruction | 102 |
Chapter IV Natural Economy Versus Social Economy | 104 |
2 The Prisoners Dilemma and Rational Foresight as the Specific Difference of Social and Natural Economy | 106 |
3 Gene Survival Under Essential Constraints | 109 |
4 Sociobiology and Natural Right | 112 |
The Sphere of the Mind or Unsolved Problems of Sociobiology | 114 |
2 Consciousness of Death Consciousness of the Self and the Choice Between Deathdelaying Strategies | 116 |
3 Beingwithoneselfinanother as Reconciliation Between Selfinterest and General Good | 118 |
Sociobiology as a Worldview and the Choice Between Worldviews | 120 |
2 Sociobiology as a Myth | 123 |
3 The Epic of Evolution and PlatonicChristian Metaphysics a Comparison | 124 |
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