Gifts of the body and the needs of strangers.

作者: Thomas H. Murray

DOI: 10.2307/3562041

关键词: Human valuesSociologyBureaucracySocial dimensionThreatened speciesEnvironmental ethicsPhilosophical 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.

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