Generosity
virtue in civil society
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Author
Publication
1998 - Cato Institute, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
26,750 words, Guess
Page Count
107 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL702271M
- ISBN-101882577531
- OCLC Control Number38130621
- OCLC Control Numbergenerosityvirtue0000mach
- Library of Congress Control Number97051252
and 2 more
- Goodreads812181
- LibraryThing1902695
Classifications
- DDC179/.9
- LCCBJ1533.G4 M33 1998
Description
Is generosity part of a good life? Do we have a legally enforceable obligation to be generous? Is the welfare state a form of generosity? What is generosity, and under what conditions are people generous? In Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society, Tibor Machan offers answers to those and many other questions. His work continues the long tradition of virtue ethics and shows how generosity is one of the benevolent virtues, which also include charity, kindness, and compassion, and can only be realized in combination with the "master virtue" of integrity or prudence. Machan argues that if people who spend their time defending and attempting to expand the welfare state were to devote similar attention to practicing the virtue of generosity and promoting it among their neighbors, relatives, coworkers, and friends, we would certainly live in a freer and more generous world. The abdication and usurpation of personal responsibility are the greatest moral failures of the modern welfare state.
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