| Why is it important to establish the
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| | that entrepreneurship is the ticket to a
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| moral status of entrepreneurship? Unless
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| | decent chance for wealth. Certainly one
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| it can be shown that the entrepreneur
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| | can agree that between stealing and
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| does what is morally worthwhile as an
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| | producing, the latter is more honorable.
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| entrepreneur, that his role is ethically
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| | However what if quietism - the form of
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| praiseworthy, not only his or her status
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| | religious mysticism that involves
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| in the market but the market itself
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| | complete extinction of the human will,
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| becomes vulnerable to serious moral
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| | drawing away from worldly things - is
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| criticism. This is because it is well
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| | proposed as an alternative?
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| recognised that ethics are the free
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| | How about asceticism - the religious
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| market's life line. Many economists are
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| | ideal that one can reach a higher
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| beginning to realise this. Indeed, it is
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| | spiritual state by self-discipline and
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| entrepreneurial activity that makes the
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| | self-denial? How will the system that is
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| best sense of profit - another vital part
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| | hospitable to entrepreneurship be
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| of capitalism.
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| | defended in the light of such powerful
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| However, without also demonstrating that
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| | challenges?
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| entrepreneurship is ethical, the market
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| | The most serious challenges to capitalism
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| would at most be hospitable to morally
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| | come from those who contend that by
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| indifferent kinds of behavior; at worst
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| | making entrepreneurial effort possible -
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| it would encourage moral callousness and
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| | by protecting the rights to private
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| discourage the pursuit of presumably
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| | property and the pursuit of happiness
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| morally more significant objectives, such
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| | here on earth - this system corrupts
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| as order, self-restraint, artistic
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| | human life. It tends to permit the
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| excellence, family values.
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| | commercialisation of human relationships,
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| When a system is vulnerable in one of its
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| | making us self-interested economic agents
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| essential ingredients, competing systems
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| | instead of what we really ought be,
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| that lack this weakness become very
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| | altruistic members of our community.
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| powerful if not immediately successful
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| | It is insufficient to reply that the
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| alternatives. Their images improve, even
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| | capitalist system makes it possible for
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| if their actual performance leaves a lot
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| | people to attain a better life here on
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| to be desired.
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| | earth. That is just what is in need of
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| Some argue that all we need is the
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| | defense. Why should we strive for such a
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| hospitable environment, but this is
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| | life in the first place?
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| false. Even in the freest of societies
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| | In a society of just human relationships,
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| many, many potential market agents can be
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| | there must be a consistent and constant
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| lazy. Not that laziness is encouraged but
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| | hospitality to entrepreneurship because
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| that it is clearly not foreclosed. That
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| | without this, an important moral
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| is partly what freedom means. One has a
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| | dimension of human life would be
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| genuine choice whether to be productive
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| | suppressed or at least seriously
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| or not. It is not enough to show that
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| | distorted. Without such a welcome, public
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| under capitalism human beings are free,
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| | policy and law would yield to more widely
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| unless the kind of uses to which such a
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| | accepted but sadly misguided moral
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| system puts human effort can themselves
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| | sentiments, for example, the call
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| bemorally worthwhile. So the question
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| | forgreater and greater state power to
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| needs to be addressed. Why should one be
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| | regiment or re-engineer society instead
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| productive? Why should entrepreneurship
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| | of making it safe for natural human
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| be practiced? What is good about it?
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| | initiative.
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| It is not enough by a long shot to answer
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