Society, Markets and Virtues: An Aristotelian Analysis

Abstract

This contribution deals with the virtues that, according to Aristotle, favour the development of a healthy economic life, that is, oriented towards the achievement of the good life. This orientation is the criterion to determine the consequently convenient set of virtues. The chapter will account for the relation between the market and the polis, the ethical principle regulating exchange, the role of money and the virtues involved in economic matters.