Reviving the Love for Economic Justice - Foul Was Never Fair

In this book, Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo explores ways to reverse the cultural preference for utility and wealth over the democratic ideals of justice and civic friendship. She argues that economies and markets can be legitimately subordinated to the ideal of fellowship because human experience reveals love as the telos of human existence.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 From the Struggle for Existence to Communion
Chapter 2 The Primacy of Love
Chapter 3 Justice Begins with Oneself
Chapter 4 Reconciling Utility and Justice
Chapter 5 Coping with Existential Insecurity
Epilogue: The Value of Literary Utopias

About the author

Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo teaches in the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology and the Department of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Tilburg University.

Summary

In this book, Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo explores ways to reverse the cultural preference for utility and wealth over the democratic ideals of justice and civic friendship. She argues that economies and markets can be legitimately subordinated to the ideal of fellowship because human experience reveals love as the telos of human existence.

Product details

• Authors: Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781793642103
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-210-3
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Economics, PHILOSOPHY / Political, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, RELIGION / Ethics, Social & political philosophy, Religious ethics