The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

606 indexMeester, Johan de: on van Gogh’s illness, 181,531n16Melian Dialogue: 398–399, 404; analogies inBolshevism and in Callicles, 548n26Menand, Louis: critique of Pinker, 439Mencken: booboisie, 69; businessmen’s selfloathing,69; Romantic stoicism of, 192Mendelson, Cheryl: pride in work, 475Merleau-Ponty, Maurice: rich West dependson poor East and South, 515n10Merriam, T. W., with Frank Knight: Christianityand property, 465, 466–467, 468Merton, Thomas: defining faith, 152–153;humility not neurosis, 188Michaels, Walter Benn: Austen’s classwork with implied audience, 545n12(chap. 34)Midgley, Mary: sin, 281, 285; virtue ethicist,92Midwestern bourgeoisie: to be defended, 1;values of, 359, 360Mill, John Stuart: ethical strands of earlynineteenth century, 9; on feminine selfabnegation,188; sacred and profane, 410;sacred in economy, 410, 420; saintly utilitarian,111; uses Wordsworth spiritually,98Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman, 329–330;rational and mystic in art, 176Miller, Donald: on origin of Art Institute,530n27Mills, C. Wright: as left critic, 69Milton, John: among the beasts no mate forthee, 305; evil be thou my good, 281–282;nature’s bastards, 254; to reign in hell,282; Satan and rhetoric, 224; Satan’spride, 186–187; on virtues supportinglove, 98–99Minh, Ho Chi: life of globalization, 162modern economic growth: and Apology 1–53throughout; importance, 20–21; ethicaleffects, 22–27. See also capitalism; globalizationModern Times, Chaplin film: on factorywork, 474Mokyr, Joel: competing governments protectingtechnical change, 40; Enlightenmentprotecting capitalism, 14, 41Molière, J. B.: bourgeois gentleman, 384, 501monism in ethics: Murdoch as Platonist,365; Platonism, 365–366. See also Platomonotheism: theology of, 102–103. See alsoStark; ChristianityMontesquieu, Charles, Baron de: balance ofvirtues, 8; place in social theory, 2;praises commercial virtues, 30, 299–300;timidity of poor in state of nature, 19Moore, Gary, Faithful Finances, 483, 488moral sentiments, Adam Smith’s theory ofxiii, 106, 154; Budziszewski on the theory,367; Folbre on the theory, 482; Nozick onthe book, 341; Theory of Moral Sentiments,195, 407morality. See ethicsMoreno, Alejandro: religious values worldwide,554n18Morgan, J. P.: charity, 492; trust in business,129Morgan, Kathryn: star system in ethics, 92Mormons: as capitalists, 463; homosexualityamong, 233Morse, Jennifer Roback: business partnershiplike marriage, 138; ethical good ofcapitalism, 5Mortality: humanness requires, 125;poignancy of love for mortals, 104; assource of ethics, 97, 104Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Magic Flute,taciturnity in, 224–225; misogyny in,227Mo-zi, or Micius: prudence-only theorist,12Mueller, John: circus business, 484; marketand virtues, 515n6; “pretty good” capitalism,3Muir, Edwin: animals and words, 172Muller, Jerry: capitalism purposeless, 23;German antiracism, 145; quoting Freyeron totality and Lukás on socialism,527n14; quoting Thomassin against speculation,554n11 (chap. 46)Munro, Alice: defines eros, 91, 92Murdoch, Iris: defines love, 91; emotivism,364; humility not self-effacement, 189;idolatry, 104; love as selfish, 107; on theman of the Grounding, 277–278;monism in ethics, 386; relation amongvirtues, 281, 367; Romantic stoicism apose, 192; unlike Lucifer, 190; virtueethicist, 66, 91Murphy, Sean: American presidents withIrish ancestry, 521n5