Value and Values : : Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence / / ed. by Roger T. Ames, Peter D. Hershock.

The most pressing issues of the twenty-first century-climate change and persistent hunger in a world of food surpluses, to name only two-are not problems that can be solved from within individual disciplines, nation-states, or cultural perspectives. They are predicaments that can only be resolved by...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Interdependence and Relationality
  • 1. The Mosaic and the Jigsaw Puzzle: How It All Fits Together
  • 2. Value, Exchange, and Beyond: Betweenness as Starting Point
  • 3. Triple Negation: Watsuji Tetsurō on the Sustainability of Ecosystems, Economies, and International Peace
  • 4. Fouling Our Nest: Is (Environmental) Ethics Impotent against (Bad) Economics?
  • 5. The Visible and the Invisible: Rethinking Values and Justice from a Buddhist- Postmodern Perspective
  • 6. "You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself !"
  • 7. Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Rural Community: An Alternative Ethical Paradigm for Modern Aging Societies
  • 8. Doing Justice to Justice: Seeking a More Capacious Conception of Justice from Confucian Role Ethics
  • Part II: Dynamism and Contextuality
  • 9. Moral Equivalents
  • 10. A Critique of Economic Reason: Between Tradition and Postcoloniality
  • 11. Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and Thanksgiving: Lessons from Cultural Anthropology
  • 12. John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies
  • 13. The Responsible Society as Social Harmony: Walter G. Muelder's Communitarian Social Ethics as a Bridge Tradition for Confucian Economics
  • 14. Swaraj and Swadeshi: Gandhi and Tagore on Ethics, Development, and Freedom
  • 15. Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion: The Concept of an Islamic Economics
  • 16. Two Challenges to Market Daoism
  • 17. Buddhist, Western, and Hybrid Perspectives on Liberty Rights and Economic Rights
  • 18. The Conversation of Justice: Rawls, Sandel, Cavell, and Education for Political Literacy
  • 19. Social Justice and the Occident
  • 20. Three-Level Eco-Humanism in Japanese Confucianism: Combining Environmental with Humanist Social Ethics
  • 21. Economic Growth, Human Well- Being, and the Environment
  • Part III: Equity and Diversity
  • 22. The Moral Necessity of Socialism
  • 23. Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism Thinking on Values and Justice
  • 24. What Is It Like to Be a Moral Being?
  • 25. What Is the Value of Poverty? A Comparative Analysis of Aristotle's Politics and Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki
  • 26. Economic Goods, Common Goods, and the Good Life
  • 27. On the Justice of Caring Labor: An Alternative Theory of Liberal Egalitarianism to Dworkin's Luck Egalitarianism
  • 28. Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves
  • 29. Institutional Power Matters: The Role of Institutional Power in International Development
  • 30. The Value of Diversity: Buddhist Reflections on More Equitably Orienting Global Interdependence
  • Contributors
  • Index