Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2015

Value and Values

Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence

Edited by: Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824854522

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The most pressing issues of the twenty-first century—climate change and persistent hunger in a world of food surpluses, to name only two—are not problems that can be solved from within individual disciplines, nation-states, or cultural perspectives. They are predicaments that can only be resolved by generating sustained and globally robust coordination across value systems. The scale of the problems and necessity for coordinated global solutions signal a world historical transit as momentous as the Industrial Revolution: a transition from the predominance of technical knowledge to that of ethical deliberation. This volume brings together leading thinkers from around the world to deliberate on how best to correlate worth (value) with what is worthwhile (values), pairing human prosperity with personal, environmental, and spiritual flourishing in a world of differing visions of what constitutes a moral life.

Especially in the aftermath of what is now being called the Great Recession, awareness has mounted of the imperative to question the modern divorce of economics from ethics. While the domains of economics and ethics were from antiquity through at least the eighteenth century understood in many cultures to be coterminous and mutually entailing, the modern assumption has been that the goal of maximizing human prosperity and the aim of justly enhancing our lives as persons and as communities were functionally and practically distinct. Working from a wide array of perspectives, the contributors to this volume offer a set of challenges to the assumed independence of the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of human and planetary well-being. Reflecting on the complex interrelationship among economics, justice, and equity, the book resists "one size fits all" approaches and struggles to revitalize the marriage of economics and ethics by activating cultural differences as the basis of mutual contribution to shared human flourishing. The publication of this important collection will stimulate or extend critical debates among scholars and students working in a number of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, including philosophy, history, environmental studies, economics, and law.

Contributors:
Roger T. Ames, James Behuniak Jr., Steve Bein, Nalini Bhushan, Purushottama Bilimoria, Steven Burik, Amita Chatterjee, Baoyan Cheng, Gordon Davis, Jay L. Garfield, Steven F. Geisz, Peter D. Hershock, Larry A. Hickman, Kathleen M. Higgins, Heidi M. Hurd, Thomas P. Kasulis, Workineh Kelbessa, Lori Keleher, Oliver Leaman, James McRae, Jin Y. Park, James Peterman, Naoko Saito, May Sim, Robert Smid, Paul Standish, Kenneth W. Stikkers, Karsten J. Struhl, Meera Sushila Viswanathan, Wu Shiu- Ching, Xu Di, T. Yamauchi, Yang Liuxin

Author / Editor information

Ames Roger T. :

Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, cochair of the Academic Advisory Committee at Peking University Berggruen Research Center, and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i.Hershock Peter D. :

Peter D. Hershock is director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center, Honolulu.Roger T. Ames (Editor)
Roger T. Ames is professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i and editor of Philosophy East and West.

Peter D. Hershock (Editor)
Peter D. Hershock is coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center, Honolulu. He has been a practicing Buddhist since 1982.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Interdependence and Relationality
1. The Mosaic and the Jigsaw Puzzle: How It All Fits Together Thomas P. Kasulis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Value, Exchange, and Beyond: Betweenness as Starting Point Meera Sushila Viswanathan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. Triple Negation: Watsuji Tetsurō on the Sustainability of Ecosystems, Economies, and International Peace James McRae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
4. Fouling Our Nest: Is (Environmental) Ethics Impotent against (Bad) Economics? Heidi M. Hurd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
5. The Visible and the Invisible: Rethinking Values and Justice from a Buddhist- Postmodern Perspective Jin Y. Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. “You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself !” James Peterman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Rural Community: An Alternative Ethical Paradigm for Modern Aging Societies Yang Liuxin, Baoyan Cheng and Xu Di Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
8. Doing Justice to Justice: Seeking a More Capacious Conception of Justice from Confucian Role Ethics Roger T. Ames Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Part II: Dynamism and Contextuality
9. Moral Equivalents Kathleen M. Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
10. A Critique of Economic Reason: Between Tradition and Postcoloniality Purushottama Bilimoria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
11. Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and Thanksgiving: Lessons from Cultural Anthropology Kenneth W. Stikkers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
12. John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies Larry A. Hickman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
13. The Responsible Society as Social Harmony: Walter G. Muelder’s Communitarian Social Ethics as a Bridge Tradition for Confucian Economics Robert Smid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
14. Swaraj and Swadeshi: Gandhi and Tagore on Ethics, Development, and Freedom Nalini Bhushan and Jay L. Garfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
15. Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion: The Concept of an Islamic Economics Oliver Leaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
16. Two Challenges to Market Daoism James Jr. Behuniak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
17. Buddhist, Western, and Hybrid Perspectives on Liberty Rights and Economic Rights Gordon Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
18. The Conversation of Justice: Rawls, Sandel, Cavell, and Education for Political Literacy Naoko Saito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
19. Social Justice and the Occident Paul Standish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
20. Three-Level Eco-Humanism in Japanese Confucianism: Combining Environmental with Humanist Social Ethics T. Yamauchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
21. Economic Growth, Human Well- Being, and the Environment Workineh Kelbessa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Part III: Equity and Diversity
22. The Moral Necessity of Socialism Karsten J. Struhl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
23. Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism Thinking on Values and Justice Steven Burik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	400
24. What Is It Like to Be a Moral Being? Amita Chatterjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
25. What Is the Value of Poverty? A Comparative Analysis of Aristotle’s Politics and Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki Steve Bein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
26. Economic Goods, Common Goods, and the Good Life May Sim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
27. On the Justice of Caring Labor: An Alternative Theory of Liberal Egalitarianism to Dworkin’s Luck Egalitarianism Wu Shiu-Ching Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460
28. Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves Steven F. Geisz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
29. Institutional Power Matters: The Role of Institutional Power in International Development Lori Keleher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
30. The Value of Diversity: Buddhist Reflections on More Equitably Orienting Global Interdependence Peter D. Hershock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 568
Illustrations
- Other: 11 line drawings

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Published: February 28, 2015
ISBN: 9780824854522