Neo-liberalism and its threat to moral agency

Bob Brecher

Neo-liberalism and its threat to moral agency

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Virtue and Economy
Subtitle of host publication	Essays on Morality and Markets
Editors	A. Bielskis, K. Knight
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	Ashgate
Pages	23-32
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781472412560
Publication status	Published - 28 May 2015

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Bob Brecher
- bb594@brighton.ac.uk
- School of Humanities - Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
Person: Academic

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