The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

610 indexrealism: in epistemology, 333–335; in ethics,332–336; in politics, 400red vs. blue states, xiv, 65Reddy, William: emotions from stories, 216;quoting Frijda and Bower on prudenceonly, 549n19 (chap. 39); universality ofemotions, 392Reich, Robert: “Roman” civic religion of,197–198religion: and commerce historically, 462–464and chaps. 42, 43 throughout; economicsof, prudence-only approach, 115; fundamentalistsas theologians, 147; modernsubstitutes for, 104; value of, 197. See alsoChristianity; faith; hope; transcendenceRenan, Ernest: rationality of modern world,434resources, natural: importance now, 32–34Ricardo, David: “gentleman,” 471; importanceof land, 33rich: not dependent on exploiting poor, 6,27–28; taxing for poor, 43–47 and chaps.46, 47 throughoutRicherson, Peter J., 551n15 (chap. 41)Riders of the Purple Sage, taciturn hero in,230Ridley, Matt: small-government vision of,47–50rights: and utilitarianism, 403–404. See alsoPosner, RichardRiley, James: life expectancy, 517n40robber barons: good barons, 489–496; originof phrase, 554n3Robbins, Lionel: emotivism, 387Roberts, Peter: friendship in business, 156Roberts, Russell: on Nozick’s ExperienceMachine, 124; virtue in capitalism,482–483Rockefeller, John D., Sr.: charity, 492; innovations,489–490Rockefeller, William: Anaconda deal,494–495Rockwell, Norman: compared with vanGogh, 179Roget, Peter Mark: sins, 312–313; virtues inmodern times, 361–363Romanticism, German: detour of Enlightenmentproject, 145, 511Rome, ancient: childcare at Rome, 94; civiccourage, 206; soldiery commercialized,206Roosevelt, Theodore: “aristocrat,” 70–71, 228;queers, 234; relation to Owen Wister, 228;Roosevelt and Romance, 228; Rooseveltsons in World War I, 230, 534n22 (chap.18); as writer, 228–229Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg: defining academichumility, 185; phrónimos, prudent person,256; virtue ethicist, 92Rorty, Richard: ethics and evolution, 438;naming reasons for belief, 324; postmodernbourgeois liberalism, 393, 499; prudenceas selfishness, 547n19; on Truth,333Rosand, David: virtues on Ducal Palace inVenice, 539n3Rose, Mary Beth: “heroism of endurance,”224Ross, Dorothy: American exceptionalism,522n16Rotella, Guy: gender anxiety in American literature,229Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: argument similar toSmith’s little-finger-and-Chinese, 524n25;general will not solution to governmentby rich, 45–47; general will, fascist potential,143; government protecting rich, 45;land as cause of inequality, 34, 457; neglectof children, 114; rude forests, 459Royal Palace on the Dam: as former cityhall, 290–292Ruether, Rosemary: humility womanly, 188Rumbold, Richard: Presbyterian egalitarian,265–266, 269Ruskin, John: admission of some bourgeoisvirtues, 61; honesty and industry asVenetian virtues, 296; nostalgia for precapitalism,31Russell, Bertrand: fact and value, 396; freeman’s worship, 171Ryan, Alan: Aristotelians characterized, 282Ryan, Monsignor John A.: goods and sin, 453S, variables, defined, 407 and chaps. 38, 39,40 throughoutSacks, Rabbi Jonathan: market as blessing,30; quoting Maimonides on work,553n5 (chap. 45); quoting RabbenuBachya on good wealth, 551n10; truthmultiple, 184sacred and profane: in Abrahamic religions,106 and chaps. 38, 39, 40 throughout;