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The Role of Providence in the Social Order - An Essay in Intellectual History (Paperback)
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The Role of Providence in the Social Order - An Essay in Intellectual History (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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The essays in this book were originally presented by Professor
Viner as the 1966 Jayne Lectures of the American Philosophical
Society. The relationship between religious doctrines and economic
theory and behavior had long interested Professor Viner, and the
conclusions he discussed represented years of thoughtful study.
They focus in particular on the way in which providence was used to
justify existing economic and social conditions. The author points
out that providence favors trade among peoples in order to promote
universal brotherhood; providence also creates social inequality
because it is part of the divine plan. Providence designed a world
in which commerce was necessary, in which good business benefited
not only the individual, but all mankind, in which inequality in
rank and income was part of the scheme of things. Why, then, the
evils of over-rigid mercantilism, or selfish profiteering, of
undeserved and hopeless poverty? Professor Viner shows that in
discussing such questions the Fathers of the Church, the
scholastics, the theologians of the seventeenth century, and the
philosophers of the eighteenth laid the foundations for modern
economic thought. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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