The vice of luxury economic excess in a consumer age
The problem of luxury has been neglected in contemporary Christian theology and philosophy, as well as in the broader social debate about the morality of our common economic life. And according to moral theologian David Cloutier this neglect of luxury has had harmful consequences: Greco-Roman and Ju...
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press
[2015]
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| Series: | Moral traditions series
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005050539708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Why Luxury?
- Chapter 2. Luxury in History : A Brief Survey
- Chapter 3. Neglected Vice : How Luxury Degrades Us, Our Work, and Our Communities
- Chapter 4. Neglected Sacramentality : Why Luxury Blocks a Spirituality of our Material Goods
- Chapter 5. Neglecting Positionality : Why Luxury Does Not Necessarily Help the Economy
- Chapter 6. Luxury Defined
- Chapter 7. Luxury and Social Context : Who Has More Than Enough?
- Chapter 8. Luxury and Necessity : What is Enough?
- Chapter 9. Luxury and Sacrament : What's Beyond Enough?
- Conclusion. Resisting with Discipline, Responding with Hope
