TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luk Bouckaert
AU  - Hendrik Opdebeeck
AU  - Laszlo Zsolnai
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Frugality
T2  - Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104230
N2  - This book examines frugality as an ideal and an ‘art de vivre’ which implies a low level of material consumption and a simple lifestyle, to open the mind for spiritual goods as inner freedom, social peace and justice or the quest for God or ‘ultimate reality’. By rational choice we can develop a more frugal and sufficient way of life, but material temptations can always overwrite our ecological, social and ethical considerations. But the spiritual case for frugality is strong enough. Spiritually based frugal practices may lead to rational outcomes such as reducing ecological destruction, social disintegration and the exploitation of future generations.
KW  - Social Justice, Wirtschaftsethik, Sparsamkeit, Aufsatzsammlung, Ethics, Consumption, Christianity, Ecology
LA  - English
ER  -