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Machine generated contents note: Capitalism is not enough -- Values -- The foundation of values -- What do we tell the children? -- Satisfied mind -- Reconstruction -- pt. One Things Fall Apart -- ch. 1 Crumbling Values -- A hollow centre -- A hollow society -- ch. 2 A Failure of Secularism -- The v...

Contents note continued: Imperatives: "Why should I?" -- What might a central aim look like? -- ch. 7 Conditions for a Central Goal -- Reasonableness and consistency -- Reasonableness and making sense -- Reasonableness and change -- Unconditionality and the constant aim -- Unconditionality and human...

Contents note continued: Patience and humour -- ch. 11 Satisfied Mind as the Central Goal -- External needs -- Other people -- Responsibility -- Religious central aims -- Satisfied mind as "the real ideal" -- pt. Four Satisfied Mind and Personal Ethics -- ch. 12 Moral Reasoning -- Practice and actio...

Contents note continued: "Greed is good" -- ch. 17 Markets -- The working of markets -- Market failures -- The limits of "the invisible hand" -- The market society -- pt. Six Politics as if People Mattered -- ch. 18 Politics -- Politics and political values -- Means, ends and everyday politics -- St...

Contents note continued: Sufficiency of power -- Work and welfare -- Health care -- Education -- Futures -- ch. 23 A Good Servant but a Bad Master -- Power and values -- Power and the social climate -- "Realpolitik" -- Defensive structures -- Capital and the state -- Tax avoidance and values -- ch....