Explore philosophical perspectives on wealth, prosperity, and material resources throughout history. This Global Philosophy Library is a personal development tool for everyone that is curious and cultured, using wisdom together with our critical thinking to make informed decisions about our lives today.
The Global Philosophy Library is a personal development tool designed to help you apply philosophical wisdom to your financial decisions today. Use these perspectives alongside your critical thinking to develop a healthier relationship with money and abundance. Explore different viewpoints, reflect on your own values, and discover insights that can guide your approach to wealth and prosperity.
Philosophers have debated whether value is intrinsic, subjective, or socially constructed.
Many thinkers explore whether material prosperity contributes to or detracts from the good life.
Philosophers examine questions of fairness, merit, need, and equality in economic systems.
Thinkers consider duties of charity, questions of excess, and responsibilities to others.
From Aristotle to MacIntyre, examining the proper attitude toward wealth for a virtuous person.
Evaluating economic systems and wealth distribution based on their ability to maximize overall happiness.
Analyzing how economic systems shape social relations and critiquing capitalism's alienation and exploitation.
Examines economics as household management and the proper role of wealth in a good life.
Foundational text on market economics and the "invisible hand" of self-interest.
Critique of capitalism and analysis of labor, value, and commodity fetishism.
Proposes principles for just distribution of resources behind a "veil of ignorance."