Comments on: On Markets and Families http://www.williameverett.com/2009/03/on-markets-and-families/ Reflections on Writing, Woodworking, and Ethics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: William Everett http://www.williameverett.com/2009/03/on-markets-and-families/comment-page-1/#comment-6 William Everett Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:01:07 +0000 http://www.williameverett.com/?p=104#comment-6 Great to hear from you, Steve. Indeed, the talk by Archbishop Williams is well worth reading in connection with this concern. He has turned our attention to basic ethical dimensions, with his statements about shared risk, but also to deeper theories of God and humanity, principally the notion that are dignity and freedom occur as embodied creatures within a gracious creation. I think where contemporary "conservatives" went astray is in their individualistic conception of the self as a free agent that should maximize choice (through the market), no matter the cost (usually not counted) to the environment and the neighbor. How this individualistic conception of the self could be compatible with most any theory of family remains a mystery to me. Let's keep these conversations going. Bill Great to hear from you, Steve. Indeed, the talk by Archbishop Williams is well worth reading in connection with this concern. He has turned our attention to basic ethical dimensions, with his statements about shared risk, but also to deeper theories of God and humanity, principally the notion that are dignity and freedom occur as embodied creatures within a gracious creation. I think where contemporary “conservatives” went astray is in their individualistic conception of the self as a free agent that should maximize choice (through the market), no matter the cost (usually not counted) to the environment and the neighbor. How this individualistic conception of the self could be compatible with most any theory of family remains a mystery to me.
Let’s keep these conversations going.
Bill

]]> By: Steve Martin http://www.williameverett.com/2009/03/on-markets-and-families/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Steve Martin Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:27:35 +0000 http://www.williameverett.com/?p=104#comment-5 Hi Bill, Nice to see you in the blogosphere. I'm doing some major rethinking about this kind of thing, and also lament the lack of a genuinely conservative (as opposed to neoconservative) voice in North American politics. I'm turning in my own work to some contemporary Augustinians, and am right now writing a paper on a very interesting scholar named Charles Mathewes. An American, Mathewes seems to me to be channeling another Augustinian: Rowan Williams, who has just given a wonderful critique of global capitalism, and called not for the abandonment of markets, but for their reimagining as a mechanism of human gift-giving and re-giving. If you as a good federalist-republican (at least that's how I remember you!) wouldn't mind listening to an Anglican Archbishop :) you can look here: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2323 Steve. Hi Bill,

Nice to see you in the blogosphere. I’m doing some major rethinking about this kind of thing, and also lament the lack of a genuinely conservative (as opposed to neoconservative) voice in North American politics. I’m turning in my own work to some contemporary Augustinians, and am right now writing a paper on a very interesting scholar named Charles Mathewes. An American, Mathewes seems to me to be channeling another Augustinian: Rowan Williams, who has just given a wonderful critique of global capitalism, and called not for the abandonment of markets, but for their reimagining as a mechanism of human gift-giving and re-giving. If you as a good federalist-republican (at least that’s how I remember you!) wouldn’t mind listening to an Anglican Archbishop :) you can look here:
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2323

Steve.

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