On 6/4/2012 8:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/27/michael-sandel-reason-values-bodies
More on this subject: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/what-isn-8217-t-for-sale/8902/ http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.3/ndf_michael_j_sandel_markets_morals.php http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.3/ndf_sandel_markets_morals.php ***************************************** Exchange has a history of its own. It has passed through different phases. There was a time, as in the Middle Ages, when only the superfluous, the excess of production over consumption, was exchanged. There was again a time, when not only the superfluous, but all products, all industrial existence, had passed into commerce, when the whole of production depended on exchange. ... Finally, there came a time when everything that men had considered as inalienable became an object of exchange, of traffic and could be alienated. This is the time when the very things which till then had been communicated, but never exchanged; given, but never sold; acquired, but never bought — virtue, love, conviction, knowledge, conscience, etc. — when everything, in short, passed into commerce. It is the time of general corruption, of universal venality, or, to speak in terms of political economy, the time when everything, moral or physical, having become a marketable value, is brought to the market to be assessed at its truest value. The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
