Neo-liberalism and its threat to moral agency

Bob Brecher

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Abstract

First, neo-liberalism requires a non-cognitivist view of morality, and all such views in effect (if not by intention) deny morality (as I have argued elsewhere). Second, it insists that the simulacrum of morality that remains pertains only to individuals’ individual lives – that’s to say, our “private” lives, where of course non-cognitivist views of morality might have such plausibility as they do. So, third, neo-liberalism is necessarily anti-moral.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVirtue and Economy
Subtitle of host publicationEssays on Morality and Markets
EditorsA. Bielskis, K. Knight
Place of PublicationLondon, UK
PublisherAshgate
Pages23-32
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781472412560
Publication statusPublished - 28 May 2015

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