作者: Thomas H. Murray
DOI: 10.2307/3562041
关键词: Human values 、 Sociology 、 Bureaucracy 、 Social dimension 、 Threatened species 、 Environmental ethics 、 Philosophical methodology
摘要: Relationships governed by markets keep moral and social dimensions to a bare minimum. Gifts, their open-endedness, defy such minimalization. Impersonal gifts as blood or body parts charity may not regulate relationships between specific individuals, but they serve other functions regulating larger honoring important human values, precisely those threatened massive impersonal bureaucracies.