Otto argomenti sulla moralità del mercato

Eight Arguments about the Morality of Marketplace

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss eight arguments as to the morality of markets. Five of them derive from recent discussions in Britain, two from Pope John Paul II, while the author also puts forward one of his own for good measure. The first five arguments deal with covetousness, the epistemic aspect, autonomy, the growing immateriality of preferences and the manifest discontents of materialism. Pope John Paul II's two arguments are those of creativity and the community. The eighth and final argument is that of universal opportunity: that is, the liberation of the poor. The paper ends with a section on the ambiguities of markets.