03981nam a2200457Ka 4500 ocn726740628 OCoLC 20200709055352.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110523s2011 enk ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9781107003156 1107003156 9781139078337 (electronic bk.) 113907833X (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)726740628 366105 (N$T) BJ1251 .B346 2011eb REL 067070 bisacsh 241/.64 22 N$TA Barrera, Albino. Market complicity and Christian ethics [electronic resource] / Albino Barrera. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (xii, 312 p.) New studies in Christian ethics ; v. 29 Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-299) and index. Part I. Theory: Material Cooperation in Economic Life: 1. The nature of material cooperation and moral complicity; 2. Complicity in what?: the problem of accumulative harms; 3. Too small and morally insignificant?: the problem of overdetermination; 4. Who is morally responsible in the chain of causation?: the problem of interdependence -- Part II. Application: A Typology of Market-Mediated Complicity: 5. Hard complicity I: benefiting from and enabling wrongdoing; 6. Hard complicity II: precipitating gratuitous accumulative harms; 7. Soft complicity I: leaving severe pecuniary externalities unattended; 8. Sofr complicity II: reinforcing injurious socioeconomic structures -- Part III. Synthesis and Conclusions: 9. Toward a theology of economic responsibility; 10. Synthesis: Christian ethics and blameworthy material cooperation. "The marketplace is a remarkable social institution that has greatly extended our reach so shoppers in the West can now buy fresh-cut flowers, vegetables, and tropical fruits grown halfway across the globe even in the depths of winter. However, these expanded choices have also come with considerable moral responsibilities as our economic decisions can have far-reaching effects by either ennobling or debasing human lives. Albino Barrera examines our own moral responsibilities for the distant harms of our market transactions from a Christian viewpoint, identifying how the market's division of labour makes us unwitting collaborators in others' wrongdoing and in collective ills. His important account covers a range of different subjects, including law, economics, philosophy, and theology, in order to identify the injurious ripple effects of our market activities"-- Provided by publisher. "Christian ethics has increasingly assumed a central place within academic theology. At the same time the growing power and ambiguity of modern science and the rising dissatisfaction within the social sciences about claims to value-neutrality have prompted renewed interest in ethics within the secular academic world. There is, therefore, a need for studies in Christian ethics which, as well as being concerned with the relevance of Christian ethics to the present-day secular debate, are well informed about parallel discussions in recent philosophy, science or social science"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Christian ethics. RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Barrera, Albino. Market complicity and Christian ethics. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107003156 (DLC) 2010030375 (OCoLC)656774331 New studies in Christian ethics ; v. 29. NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=366105 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50355 50355