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Between Capitalism And Socialism: Religion And Distributive Justice, Nicole Guarnieri '12
Between Capitalism And Socialism: Religion And Distributive Justice, Nicole Guarnieri '12
College Honors Program
Takes up the issue of “devout Catholics” who seem to have forgotten the significance of traditional Catholic ethics, or obligations to society as a whole. Capitalism is the most appropriate economic system, however this thesis will re-address ethics and morality in relation to our current situation, because capitalism today is lacking something that the capitalism of Adam Smith was not.
The Enlightenment Tradition Of Hume And Smith In Austen: Windows To Understanding, Nicole Coonradt
The Enlightenment Tradition Of Hume And Smith In Austen: Windows To Understanding, Nicole Coonradt
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
In his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Adam Smith notes the importance of "little department[s]"-those smaller circles of social contact: "By Nature the events which immediately affect that little department in which we ourselves have some little management and directions, which immediately affect ourselves, our friends, our country, are the events which interest us the most, and which chiefly excite our desires and aversions, our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows:' Alasdair MacIntyre would agree with this idea of one's sphere of influence, especially in the works of Jane Austen. Clearly, this concern with self, others, and country might …