Overview
- Examines essential constraints on greed.
- Explains the notions of fairness and excess
- Examines the ways our ordinary actions may be greedy
Part of the book series: Ethical Economy (SEEP, volume 58)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identifying Greed in Our Everyday World
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Normative Assessments of Greed
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Keywords
- Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal
- The Unavoidability of Greed
- Defining ‘Greed’
- Greed in Children and Adults
- A Game of Greed: Monopoly
- Fairness and Greed
- Recognizing Greed
- Greed and Recent Events
- Understanding Greed as a Morally Neutral Term
- Good, the Market, and Human Flourishing
- The Irrationality of Greed
- Against the Necessity of Greed
- Socially Locating Greed
About this book
However, in adulthood, greed is commended by some as essential to profit-seeking in business and for offering the greatest promise in promoting economic prosperity for everyone.
Those who advocate a more permissive position on greed in the adult world typically concede that some constraints on greed are needed. However, the supporting literature offers little analysis of what greed is (as distinct from, for example, the effort to meet modest needs, or the pursuit of ordinary self-interested ends). It offers little clarification ofwhat sorts of constraints on greed are needed. Nor is careful attention given to difficulties children might have in making a transition without moral loss from regarding greed as inappropriate to its later qualified acceptance. Through a secular approach, this book attempts to make significant inroads in remedying these shortcomings.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael S. Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University. He continues occasionally to teach courses in practical ethics, business ethics, media ethics, the history of 18th century Scottish moral philosophy (Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and David Hume), as well as the philosophical thinking of children. He is a founding member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) and of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum (SEAC). For 7 years he served as co-editor, with Elaine Englehardt, of SEAC’s official journal, Teaching Ethics. Among his many publications are: Philosophical Adventures With Children (University Press of America: 1985); On Becoming Responsible (University Press of Kansas: 1991); Communication Ethics, with James Jaksa (Wadsworth: 1988 & 1994); Engineering Ethics: Concepts & Cases, with C.E.Harris, Michael Rabins, Ray James, Elaine Englehardt (Cengage: 1995, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2018); Reasonable Children (University Press of Kansas: 1996); Professional Integrity (University Press of Kansas: 2007); Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration, co-edited with Elaine Englehardt, Kerry Romesburg, and Brian Schrag (Springer: 2010); Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making, with Patricia Werhane, Laura Hartman, Crina Archer, and Elaine Englehardt (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Ethics Across the Curriculum—Pedagogical Perspectives, co-edited with Elaine Englehardt (Springer: 2018).
Elaine Englehardt is the Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University (UVU). For almost thirty years, she has written and directed seven multi-year, national grants in the area of Ethics and Ethics Across the curriculum. One grant founded the Ethics program at UVU, and another funded the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum and the journal Teaching Ethics. She is currently President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum (SEAC), after serving as a founder (1999) and board member. For seven years she served as co-editor of Teaching Ethics, the official journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum with Michael Pritchard. Among her publications are: Interpersonal Communication Ethics: Friends, Intimates, Sexuality, Marriage and Family (Harcourt Brace, 2001); The Organizational Self and Ethical Conduct: Sunlit Virtue and Shadowed Resistance (Harcourt Brace, 2001), with James A. Anderson; Media Ethics for a Principled Society (Wadsworth, 2002), with Ralph Barney; Ethics and Life: An Interdisciplinary Look at the Humanities (McGraw Hill, 2010), with Don Schmeltekopf, 1-4th editions; Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration (Springer, 2010), edited with Michael Pritchard, Kerry Romesburg, and Brian Scrag; Obstacles toEthical Decision-Making (Cambridge 2013), with Patricia Werhane, Laura Hartman, Crina Archer, and Michael Pritchard; Taking Sides: Business Ethics, 11, 12 13, 14th editions (McGraw-Hill, 2014), edited with Lisa Newton and Michael Pritchard; Ethics Across the Curriculum, Pedagogical Perspectives, with Michael Pritchard, Netherlands: Springer, 2018; Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases (2019), with C.E. Harris, Michael Pritchard, and Ray James, New York: Cengage. She has written numerous peer reviewed articles and over a dozen book chapters. She has served in various administrative positions at Utah Valley University including vice president, associate vice president, dean and director. Her PhD is from the University of Utah.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal
Editors: Michael S. Pritchard, Elaine E. Englehardt
Series Title: Ethical Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70087-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70086-7Published: 31 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70089-8Published: 31 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70087-4Published: 30 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2211-2707
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2723
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 123
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Ethics, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Business Ethics