The ethics of privatisation
The main aim of the thesis is to provide an ethical evaluation of privatisation. We begin by sketching a history of privatisation in order to give an initial impression of how it has dramatically re-drawn the economic borders of the state in Britain and in many other countries across the world. We also show how privatisation has come to challenge the post-war Christian consensus which was supportive of the mixed economy. We then explain why we find a qualified Aristotelian-Thomist tradition offers us the best moral resource for our enquiry. To this end we set out Alasdair MacIntyre's project which seeks to respond to the interminable disagreement in ethics and to reinstate the classical and medieval tradition of the virtues. Then, while engaging with some of his interlocutors, we show why we are in basic agreement with the three main coordinates of his method: human wisdom, the Christian revelation, and rival moral traditions. Next, as the basis for our evaluation, we assemble as many diverse perspectives as the scope of this study allows by pursuing three main lines of enquiry. The first explores the political, economic and moral justification for the nationalisation programme of 1945-51, in order to identify
Yeats, Charles
Philosophy
The ethics of privatisation. The main aim of the thesis is to provide an ethical evaluation of privatisation. We begin by sketching a history of privatisation in order to give an initial impression of how it has dramatically re-drawn the economic borders of the state in Britain and in many other countries across the world. We also show how privatisation has come to challenge the post-war Christian consensus which was supportive of the mixed economy. We then explain why we find a qualified Aristotelian-Thomist tradition offers us the best moral resource for our enquiry. To this end we set out Alasdair MacIntyre's project which seeks to respond to the interminable disagreement in ethics and to reinstate the classical and medieval tradition of the virtues. Then, while engaging with some of his interlocutors, we show why we are in basic agreement with the three main coordinates of his method: human wisdom, the Christian revelation, and rival moral traditions. Next, as the basis for our evaluation, we assemble as many diverse perspectives as the scope of this study allows by pursuing three main lines of enquiry. The first explores the political, economic and moral justification for the nationalisation programme of 1945-51, in order to identify
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