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Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics : A Multidisciplinary Approach.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: van Nes, Jermo.
Other Authors: Nullens, Patrick., van den Heuvel, Steven C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Ethical Economy Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Editors
  • About the Editors and Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Towards a Relational Anthropology Fostering an Economics of Human Flourishing
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 What Is a Person? Rethinking Human Nature
  • 2.3 Faith, Hope, and Love: Introducing Homo Amans
  • 2.4 "The Greatest of These is Love": Exploring Human Relationality
  • 2.5 Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Natural Goodness
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Nature of Selfishness and Altruism
  • 3.3 The Evolution of Social Strategies
  • 3.3.1 The Adaptive Potential in Cooperative Strategies
  • 3.3.2 Obstacles to the Evolution of Cooperation: The Adaptive Potential in Selfish Strategies
  • 3.3.3 The Ultimate Irony: Self-Defeating Selfishness
  • 3.3.4 Resolving the Conundrum of Cooperation: The Evolution of Conditional Strategies
  • 3.3.5 Paths to the Evolution of Cooperation
  • 3.4 Psychological Sources of Goodness
  • 3.5 Moral Emotions
  • 3.5.1 Empathy
  • 3.5.2 Empathy and Altruism
  • 3.6 The Evolution and Development of Moral Reasoning
  • 3.7 Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Homo Amans: A Personalist Response
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Philosophical Anthropology: What Is at Stake?
  • 4.3 Personalism
  • 4.4 Integral Personalism: Philosophical Anthropology
  • 4.4.1 Philosophical Anthropology
  • 4.4.2 Integral Personalism - Structure
  • 4.4.2.1 The Structural Centrality of Person
  • 4.4.2.2 Personalist Categories
  • 4.4.2.3 Personalist Method
  • 4.4.2.4 Personalism and the Transformation of Society
  • 4.4.2.5 The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Person
  • 4.4.3 Integral Personalism - Key Anthropological Features
  • 4.4.3.1 Human Freedom
  • 4.4.3.2 Good and Evil: Ethics
  • 4.4.3.3 The Primacy of Action and Love.
  • 4.5 Philosophical Anthropology: Love and the Virtues
  • 4.5.1 Phenomenology of Love
  • 4.5.2 Love and Ethics
  • 4.6 Homo Amans and Neuroscience: What Might the Relationship Be?
  • 4.6.1 The Worldview of Neuroscience
  • 4.6.2 Neuroscience: Normative or Informative for Homo Amans?
  • 4.6.3 Anthropology
  • 4.6.4 Ethics
  • 4.7 Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics and Economics
  • 4.8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: God's Work in the World: The Deep Compatibility of Real Liberalism with Any Abrahamic Religion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: What Is the Nature of Christian Love? Homo Amans and Revolutionary Altruism
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The Problems and Limitations of a Holistic Anthropological Model
  • 6.3 The Focus on Virtues and the Ambivalence or Failure of Love
  • 6.4 Kierkegaard: A (Self-)Critique of Love as the Key to Love's Flourishing
  • 6.5 The Nature of Love and Revolutionary Altruism
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Searching for the Anthropological Foundations of Economic Practice: Controversies and Opportunities
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 The Discussion Paper: Structure of the Argument
  • 7.3 Four Perspectives
  • 7.4 The Four Perspectives in the Discussion Paper
  • 7.5 Different Routes to 'Integration'
  • 7.6 Response to Rebekka Klein
  • 7.7 Final Comments and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Altruistic Concern for the Other and the Development of the Virtue of Humility
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Human Nature and Altruistic Concern
  • 8.3 Recent Definitions of Humility
  • 8.4 Humility and Concern for the Other
  • 8.5 Humility in Relationships and Organizations
  • 8.6 Moral Schemas
  • 8.7 Moral Identity
  • 8.8 Moral Exemplars
  • 8.9 Moral Schemas of Rescuers
  • 8.10 Importance of Moral Identity
  • 8.11 Conclusion
  • References.
  • Chapter 9: Trust, Faith, and Social Imaginary: Prolegomena to an Anthropology of Personhood
  • 9.1 From Homo Economicus to Homo Amans
  • 9.2 The Need for Trust, a Short History of the Concept
  • 9.3 Trust, Social Imaginaries and the Origin of Personhood
  • 9.4 Trust, Faith and Homo Amans, the Need for a New Social Imaginary
  • References
  • Chapter 10: Homo Amans in the Economy: A Utopia?
  • 10.1 Meaningfulness and Reasonableness Behind the Quest to Define and Understand the Need for Love Within an Economic Context
  • 10.2 Justice and the Natural Predisposition to Love
  • 10.3 Factors that Encourage the Promotion of Homo Amans in the Economy
  • 10.3.1 Responsible, as in Responsible Economics
  • 10.3.2 Inter-relational, as in the Social Economy
  • 10.3.3 Enough, as in the Circular Economy
  • 10.3.4 Balanced, as in the Happiness Economy
  • 10.3.5 Authentic, as in the Purpose Economy
  • 10.3.6 Meaningful, as in the Economy of Communion
  • 10.4 The Interconnection with Trust
  • 10.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Out with the Old, In with the New? From Conceptual Reconstruction in Philosophical Anthropology to a Realistic Theory of Change
  • 11.1 Pinning Down a Slippery Problem
  • 11.2 Conceptual Reconstruction
  • 11.2.1 Framing Considerations
  • 11.2.2 Individualism, Relationality, and Love as Agape and Karuna
  • 11.2.3 Cognitive Error, Self-Awareness, and Wisdom as Knowledge and Humility
  • 11.3 Theory of Change
  • 11.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 12: Personal Leadership: How to Change What Cannot Be Changed: A Response to Wesley Wildman's Out with the Old, In with the New?
  • References
  • Chapter 13: A Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics? Concluding Reflections
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 Discussion
  • 13.3 Conclusion
  • References.

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