Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Abstract This entry traces the uses and meaning of the term ‘reciprocity’ in the French Enlightenment. After showing how the term exploded in texts about society and political economy after 1750, it … that it was used above all to justify free trade and societies based on commercial relations; fourth, that after the French Revolution, the term was abandoned by the advocates of free-market capitalism and became the watchword of socialists and …
Antagonism | Commerce | Equality | France | Hierarchy | Morality
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