Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… exchange’; second, that it presupposed a moral equality between the parties involved in exchanges, thereby challenging social hierarchies based on privilege and birth; third, 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 critics of free trade in the nineteenth century. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy Mots-clés …
Antagonism | Commerce | Equality | France | Hierarchy | Morality
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