Justice and charity: the role of Aristotelianism and Anglicanism in Edmund Burke’s Thoughts and Details on Scarcity

Ioannes  Chountis

doi:10.1080/09672567.2022.2136730

Justice and charity: the role of Aristotelianism and Anglicanism in Edmund Burke’s Thoughts and Details on Scarcity

Ioannes Chountis^* (Corresponding Author)

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School of Divinity, History & Philosophy

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Abstract

Despite the resurgence of academic interest on Edmund Burke’s economic ideas, there seems to be room for further research on how his economic ideas were connected to his political and religious thought. Here the purpose is to examine how Anglicanism and Aristotelianism informed Burke’s economics. Through his tract Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, it is attempted to answer what role Christian charity played in his thought and how Burke’s concept of Aristotelian justice informed his economic ideas. Overall, the goal is to provide for a case study on connecting economic to political and religious thought in the 18th-century.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1022-1041
Number of pages	19
Journal	The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Volume	29
Issue number	6
Early online date	9 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2022.2136730
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2022
Event	ESHET 2021: Development and Underdevelopment in the History of Economic Thought - Sofia, Bulgaria Duration: 8 Oct 2021 → 10 Oct 2021 https://www.eshet-conference.net/sofia

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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Richard Stern and Hans-Michael Trautwein as well as the two anonymous referees for their constructive and helpful comments which really helped me in forming my arguments and structuring this paper in a much more novel and concise way. I also thank Constantinos Repapis for his constructive feedback and fruitful discussions. The suggestions of Demosthenes Kollias were, also, very helpful. Finally, I thank the participants in conferences for reading and commenting on an earlier version of this paper.

Keywords

Edmund Burke
History of econmic thought
Anglicanism
Aristotelianism
theory of wages

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Justice and charity: the role of Aristotelianism and Anglicanism in Edmund Burke’s Thoughts and Details on Scarcity

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