The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and MarketUsing 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. |
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... Bacon : Democratic Technocracy Hobbes : The Moral Responsibility of the State Smith : The Morality of the Marketplace Three Paths to Order ; Three Paths from Moral Responsibility Notes The Technology of Power and the Power of Technology ...
... Bacon : Democratic Technocracy Hobbes : The Moral Responsibility of the State Smith : The Morality of the Marketplace Three Paths to Order ; Three Paths from Moral Responsibility Notes The Technology of Power and the Power of Technology ...
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... Bacon proposed a world based on what we now call natural science , in which use of the proper methods would ensure the emergence of truth . Hobbes proposed a world based on a science of the state , grounded on the model of geometry ...
... Bacon proposed a world based on what we now call natural science , in which use of the proper methods would ensure the emergence of truth . Hobbes proposed a world based on a science of the state , grounded on the model of geometry ...
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... Bacon proposed a world governed by science ; Hobbes proposed a world governed by the state ; Smith proposed a world governed by the market . The next three chapters show how what were initially merely philosophical treatises on science ...
... Bacon proposed a world governed by science ; Hobbes proposed a world governed by the state ; Smith proposed a world governed by the market . The next three chapters show how what were initially merely philosophical treatises on science ...
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... Bacon , Thomas Hobbes , and , somewhat later , Adam Smith . Bacon critiqued the existing state of knowledge while providing us with the ideal of an administered world in which scientists inform the state of what knowledge is good and ...
... Bacon , Thomas Hobbes , and , somewhat later , Adam Smith . Bacon critiqued the existing state of knowledge while providing us with the ideal of an administered world in which scientists inform the state of what knowledge is good and ...
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... Bacon , Hobbes , and Smith and then set out to change the world accordingly is implausible . Thus , if I am going to make a case at all , it must be far more subtle than that . Instead , I shall argue that all critical works of the sort ...
... Bacon , Hobbes , and Smith and then set out to change the world accordingly is implausible . Thus , if I am going to make a case at all , it must be far more subtle than that . Instead , I shall argue that all critical works of the sort ...
Contents
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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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