ABSTRACT

Reflections on Commercial Life, an anthology of writings, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, provides students, scholars, and general readers an opportunity to develop a more self-conscious and critical relationship to commercial life. Selections are drawn from seminal works of high intellectual and literary quality. Through an inquiry into history, nature, and outcomes, this volume offers the opportunity to explore, as never before, alternatives to modern commercial life.

chapter |37 pages

General Introduction

On Studying Commercial Life

chapter chapter 1|30 pages

Plato (c. 427–c.347 B.C)

chapter chapter 2|17 pages

Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

chapter chapter 3|29 pages

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

chapter chapter 4|16 pages

St. Thomas More (1478–1535)

chapter chapter 5|14 pages

John Locke (1632–1704)

chapter chapter 6|7 pages

Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

chapter chapter 6|18 pages

David Hume (1711–1776)

chapter chapter 8|31 pages

Adam Smith (1723–1790)

chapter chapter 9|9 pages

James Madison (1751–1836)

chapter chapter 10|8 pages

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

chapter chapter 11|30 pages

G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831)

chapter chapter 12|43 pages

Karl Marx (1818–1883)

chapter chapter 13|20 pages

John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

chapter chapter 14|15 pages

Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)

chapter chapter 15|15 pages

Georg Simmel (1858–1918)

chapter chapter 16|16 pages

Max Weber (1864–1920)

chapter chapter 17|8 pages

Marcel Mauss (1872–1950)

chapter chapter 18|9 pages

Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

chapter chapter 19|13 pages

Simone Weil (1909–1943)

chapter chapter 20|20 pages

Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992)

chapter chapter 21|12 pages

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

chapter chapter 22|18 pages

Daniel Bell (1919– )

chapter chapter 23|27 pages

Jean Baudrillard (1929– )