The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

608 indexP variables: Dario Comi and, 422–423, chap.40; defined, 407; econometrics of, 411;Frank on sacred and, 414–415; Hume on,420; Klamer on sacred and, 418; listed,410; Nye on sacred and, 412; and sacred,409; Sen on,419; Velthuis on sacred and,416–418pagan virtues, cardinal virtues: 96; charted,300; and the Roman spirit in America,196. See also cardinal virtues; courage;justice; prudence; temperancePage, R. I.: Icelandic sagas as history, 213Pahl, Ray: market and friendship, 157–158;quoting Silver on friendship andprudence-only, 549n9Palmer, Richard: character of economistsand physicists, 531n21 (chap. 14)Pálsson, Hermann: used, 204Parker, Geoffrey: competition of Europeangovernments, 37Parks, Tim: early Medici and embarrassmentof riches, 81partnerships, business: compared to marriage,138Pascoe, Robin: on van Gogh, 530n4Paul, St.: defines faith; hope, 161; othersgiven by God, 184; on theological virtues,96; work and Christianity, 467Pearl poet: love for daughter, 94peasantry: attitude toward work, 76; identifiedwith proletariat, 76; nostalgia for lifeof, 10, 31, 474, 505Perry, James F.: quoting Russell on ultimatevalues, 547n16 (chap. 37)Peterson, Christopher: Character Strengths,314–319; ethics and rewards, 340; lists ofvirtues, 379; universality of virtues, 392petite bourgeoisie: defined, 73; and politicalreaction, 73. See also Johnston, RobertPetty, William: on “gentleman,” 471Pfeiffer, Jules: Stalinism in New York, 55Pierpont, Claudia Roth: on Hammett,227–228Pincoffs, Edmund: virtue of virtues, 246Pinker, Steven: critique by Fodor, 113, 356,409, 437, 440, 489; critique by Menand,439; friendship, 113; practical uses ofHamlet, 113; sociopaths, 438Pirsig, Robert. See Zen and the ArtPlato: Aristotle and the ideal, 253–254; Calliclesin Gorgias, 548n26; four virtues, 96;love as reunification, 93; love transcendent,98; and mathematics, 152; asmonist of the good, 65, 365–366; Plato’sclass position, 262; Socrates seeks selfrefutation,55; St. Augustine as Platonist,98, 263; virtues social and individual, 247Pluhar, Werner: Kant and Hume’s Treatise ofHuman Nature, 537n11Plutarch: on heroism of German women,532n2 (chap. 16); life stories as ethicalexamples, 327Pocock, J. G. A.: civic faith of eighteenthcentury, 163Poe, Edgar Allen: and clerisy’s “irritability,”10; quotation disputed, 516n20Polanyi, Karl: antibourgeois charges, 142;solidarity-only, 410Polanyi, Michael: materialism and ethics, 394Pole, Reginald, Cardinal: paragon of prudence,257Political Economy Research Center: marketenvironmentalism, 197Pollock, Linda: childcare in medievalEurope, 94Pool, Robert: quoting physicist on economists’degree of humility, 531n21Poole, Joyce, and others: on nature-nurturein elephants, 551n13 (chap. 41)poor countries. See globalization, capitalismpoor people: said to be generated by capitalism,59, 518n68; spirit and condition, 28;U.S. government benefit to, 43–47; whyignored before Smith, 24, 517n49, andchaps. 44, 45Pope, Alexander: paradox of thrift, 455, 457Pope, Stephen J.: pride not self-abnegation,187; quoting Aquinas on humility, 531n1,531n2Popkin, Samuel L.: Vietnamese peasants andcommunity, 527n7population: increase since 1800, 15–16,18–20positivism: logical positivism and ethics,387–398; mechanical, 161; narrows evidence,110–111. See also emotivismPosner, Richard: aftershave virtues, 401–404;how he reads, 532n23; rape,403–404;response to Dworkin, 548n21; self-assertion,401; wealth maximization, 413–414postmodern economics as economic theology,198