The Bourgeois Virtues

Preface            
Acknowledgments       
Apology: A Brief for the Bourgeois Virtues       

I. Exordium: The Good Bourgeois        
II. Narratio: How Ethics Fell    
III. Probatio A: Modern Capitalism Makes Us Richer  
IV. Probatio B: And Lets Us Live Longer        
V. Probatio C: And Improves Our Ethics         
VI. Refutatio: Anticapitalism Is Bad for Us       
VII. Peroratio  

1. The Very Word “Virtue”    
2. The Very Word “Bourgeois”          
3. On Not Being Spooked by the Word “Bourgeois” 

Part 1 - The Christian and Feminine Virtues: Love
4. The First Virtue: Love Profane and Sacred 
5. Love and the Transcendent
6. Sweet Love vs. Interest     
7. Bourgeois Economists against Love
8. Love and the Bourgeoisie   

Part 2 - The Christian and Feminine Virtues: Faith and Hope
10. Faith as Identity     
11. Hope and Its Banishment   
12. Against the Sacred 
13. Van Gogh and the Transcendent Profane    
14. Humility and Truth 
15. Economic Theology           

Part 3 - The Pagan and Masculine Virtues: Courage, with Temperance
16. The Good of Courage        
17. Anachronistic Courage in the Bourgeoisie   
18. Taciturn Courage against the “Feminine”     
19. Bourgeois vs. Queer          
20. Balancing Courage 
21. Prudence Is a Virtue          
22. The Monomania of Immanuel Kant
23. The Storied Character of Virtue     
24. Evil as Imbalance, Inner and Outer: Temperance and Justice           
25. The Pagan-Ethical Bourgeois         

Part 5 - Systematizing the Seven Virtues
26. The System of the Virtues  
27. A Philosophical Psychology?          
28. Ethical Striving       
29. Ethical Realism      
30. Against Reduction  
31. Character(s)          
32. Antimonism Again  
34. Dropping the Virtues, 1532–1958              
35. Other Lists            
36. Eastern and Other Ways    
37. Needing Virtues     

Part 6 - The Bourgeois Uses of the Virtues
38. P & S and the Capitalist Life          
39. Sacred Reasons     
40. Not by P Alone     
41. The Myth of Modern Rati