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The Market of Virtue - Morality and Commitment in a Liberal Society
is a contribution to the present controversy between liberalism and
communitarianism. This controversy is not only confined to academic
circles but is becoming of increasing interest to a wider public.
It has become popular again today to criticize a liberal market
society as being a society in which morality and virtues are
increasingly being displaced by egoism and utility maximization.
According to this view the competition between individuals and the
dissolution of community ties erode the respect for the interests
of others and undermine the commitment to the common good. The
present book, however, develops quite a different picture of a
liberal society. An analysis of its fundamental principles shows
that anonymous market-relations and competition are by no means the
only traits of a liberal society. Such a society also provides the
framework for freedom of cooperation and association. It gives its
citizens the right to cooperate with other people in pursuit of
their own interests. Just as the rivalry between competitors is a
basic element of a liberal society so is the cooperation between
partners. Thus not only self-centred individualism is rewarded. The
main part of the book explains how the freedom to cooperate and to
establish social ties lays the empirical foundation for the
emergence of civil virtues and moral integrity. It is the basic
insight of this analysis that it can no longer be maintained that a
liberal society is incapable of producing moral attitudes and
social commitment. If a civil society can develop under a liberal
order, then one can reckon with citizens who voluntarily contribute
to public goods and who commit themselves of their own accord to
the society, its constitution and institutions.
Das Buch diskutiert Probleme einer rationalen Rechtfertigung des Strafrechts als Mittel zur Realisierung gesellschaftlicher Zwecke.
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