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The Moral Significance of Modern Food | John Kainer
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How do we define the political? How should we? Prathama Banerjee asks this question in her new book
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My Turn: Reconnect to the elementary forms
Published: 4/25/2021 2:00:04 PM
I’ve written about this before in this space. We think we act rationally with the cold logic of a computer, but beneath we remain mere animals driven by instinct, habit, geography, time and mystery. Toward that end, there’s even a new book entitled
How to Be Animal.
We are not solitary but social animals, though not always the cuddlesome creatures seen on Animal Planet. We can get swept up in the moment and do terrible things, prompted by something sociologists call “social contagion.” There’s a new book about that also, called
Benedikt Koehler on the Enlightenment, Religion, and Mosaic Economics
The Enlightenment purged economics of religion. This began when John Locke claimed that everyone had the right to pursue ‘life, liberty, and estate,’ which implied true happiness could be found this side of the afterlife; continued when Adam Smith explained markets followed an Invisible Hand, which made divine will irrelevant to economics; and concluded when Jeremy Bentham wrote that happiness was a surplus of pleasure over pain, which made ethics calculable. Modern economics has been built on insights into property rights, incentives, and utility, and economics and religion have had little to say to each other ever since the Enlightenment. One might ask whether that matters. Astronomers, after all, do their job without reading Genesis. But in the case of economics things are different. The advances of economics inspire awe, but not affection, and from an early stage the accolades earned for amassing material