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The Moral Economy of Labor - Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory (Hardcover, New)
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The Moral Economy of Labor - Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory (Hardcover, New)
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This book concerns the dignity and the degradation of labor.
Because our work has considerable power either to foster or to
undermine our happiness and well-being, the degradation of labor is
a profound obstacle to human flourishing. Yet the moral dimension
of labor has been neglected in our political theory and practice.
In this book, James Bernard Murphy aims to restore productive labor
to its rightful place in moral and political debate. Ever since
Aristotle, there have been many theories of distributive justice
but very little in the way of a theory of justice in production.
Through a bold reconstruction and critique of Aristotle's views of
nature and moral reason, Murphy develops a new Aristotelian theory
of productive labor. According to Aristotle, work has dignity when
the worker executes what he has first conceived in thought, and
work is degraded when one worker merely executes what is conceived
by another. With Aristotle's definition of work as a unity of
conception and execution, we can see what is wrong with work in the
contemporary world: the detailed division of labor has divorced
conception from execution. Although the prevalence of monotonous
and stultifying work is widely regarded as the inevitable cost of
economic progress, Murphy argues that restoring the unity of
conception and execution in the design of jobs is compatible with
our economic interests in efficient production and is required by
our moral interests in human flourishing.
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