The Moral Standing of the Market
The Moral Standing of the Market
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市场的道德地位
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发表时间：
1985
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0.4
通讯作者：
A. Sen
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作者：
A. Sen
市场机制对实用道德的价值有多大？它的道德地位是什么？我们几乎不能怀疑，作为个人，我们确实非常珍视利用市场的机会。事实上，如果没有进入市场的机会，我们中的大多数人都会灭亡，因为我们通常不会生产我们生存所需的东西。如果我们能以某种方式在完全不使用市场的情况下生存，我们的生活质量将相当糟糕。人们自然会觉得，一个对我们的福祉如此关键的机构肯定是有价值的。由于道德评估很难对我们的利益及其实现无动于衷，这里似乎没有什么可讨论的。市场的道德声望“必须”很高。
How valuable is the market mechanism for practical morality? What is its moral standing? We can scarcely doubt that as individuals we do value tremendously the opportunity of using markets. Indeed, without access to markets most of us would perish, since we don't typically produce the things that we need to survive. If we could somehow survive without using markets at all, our quality of life would be rather abysmal. It is natural to feel that an institution that is so crucial to our well-being must be valuable. And since moral evaluation can hardly be indifferent to our interests and their fulfillment, it might appear that there is nothing much to discuss here. The market's moral standing “has to be” high.