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The scandals of recent years have led to a variety of reforms to financial institutions. But without an industry-wide commitment to something other than pure profit, calls for a greater emphasis on ethics will be largely ignored. McClean argues that a collective move towards stewardship is necessary to restore ethical behavior and public confidence. Drawing on practical examples and offering new policy recommendations, this unique philosophical study paints a picture of what a truly ethical trading future might look like

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations of Works by Richard Rorty -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Stretched Thin: Rorty's Ethical Vision -- 1. Against Human Nature -- 2. Against Categorical Imperatives -- 3. Against Moral Principles -- 4. Against Philosophical Expertise -- Overview of Chapters -- Notes -- Works By Rorty -- Other Works -- Part I: Creating Moral Communities and Creating Selves -- Chapter 1: Reading Rorty in Tehran, or What Happened When I Road-Tested Rorty's Philosophy of Life Inside an Iranian Prison -- Act One -- Act Two: The Crisis -- Act Three -- Notes -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Chapter 2: Self-Creation and Community: Nietzsche, Foucault, Rorty -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Chapter 3: Richard Rorty, Ethnocentrism, and Moral Community: A Westerner's Response to FGM -- Notes -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Chapter 4: Rorty's Hope of Achieving a Global Civilization -- Notes -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Part II: Imagination, Care, and Virtue -- Chapter 5: Imagination as a Social Virtue -- Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom -- The World as a Social Poem -- Notes -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Chapter 6: Can Trees Care?: The Overstory and Rorty's Ideal of Inspirational Literature -- Notes -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Chapter 7: Richard Rorty on the "Too Sane" -- Liberals: The "Too Sane" -- The Sagacious Turn -- Jack, the Dog -- Notes -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Chapter 8: Scientific Method and Moral Virtues -- From Method to Attitude in Classical Pragmatism -- Scientific Method without Scientism -- Scientific Inquiry and Moral Virtues -- Notes -- Works by Rorty -- Other Works -- Part III: Engagements with Moral Philosophy -- Chapter 9: Talking with the Better-Looking Animals: Richard Rorty on Moral Status.

This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty's contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and coherent ethical vision. The book's chapters, grouped thematically, explore Rorty's emphasis on the importance of moral imagination, social relations, language, and literature as instrumental for ethical self-transformation, as well as for strengthening what Rorty called "social hope," which entails constant work toward a more democratic, inclusive, and cosmopolitan society and world. Several contributors address the ethical implications of Rorty's commitment to a vision of political liberalism without philosophical foundations. Others offer critical examinations of Rorty's claim that our private or individual projects of self-creation can or should be held apart from our public goals of ameliorating social conditions and reducing cruelty and suffering. Some contributors explore hurdles that impede the practical applications of certain of Rorty's ideas. The Ethics of Richard Rorty will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in American philosophy and ethics.