Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… that anthropologists distinguish today: ‘gift-giving’ and commerce. Eighteenth-century political economists tended to present the producing of goods and services for others as an act of generosity. In his treatise on education of 1762, … did not (most did not) would suffer. In 1796, a deputy went further by insisting, ‘while equality is essential for representative government, inequality is both the cause and consequence of commerce.’ 20 By the time the economic liberal …
Antagonism | Commerce | Equality | France | Hierarchy | Morality
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