But he warned that the bourgeois values of wealth, vanity, and ostentation would impede rather than advance the growth of equality, morality, dignity, freedom, and compassion.
They identified these key virtues: A global interdisciplinary perspective; long-term, empirical planning; strong communication skills; a prioritization of social justice and wellbeing over financial growth; empathy; courage; morality; and a collaborative nature.
The morality of economic growth and expansion has invaded the psyche, the inner sites where people struggle with how to be a good person; and now reigns as the ultimate revelation of what it means to be human.
It was only in 1992, remember, that Russia's new era began, after 75 years of the grossest tyranny, and not much enlightenment before that.What has yet to happen, however, is the growth of a new public morality, of a sense of civic virtue.
Religious leaders are concerned about the effects on morality and spiritual growth.
Progress from mechanical to organic solidarity is based first on population growth and increasing population density, second on increasing "morality density" (development of more complex social interactions) and thirdly, on the increasing specialisation in workplace.
And "the typical bluestate liberal is considerably redder than his predecessor when it comes to the importance of markets to economic growth, the virtues of the two-parent family and the morality of American geopolitical power".
Broadly, he fears that public morality and civic engagement have not kept pace with economic growth.
As a Western entertainment lawyer who works on Chinese co-productions explained, "The government remains determined to subordinate the growth of the film industry to outcomes such as social stability and morality".
On the other side of the debate, as we have seen, we have Protagoras' contention in the Great Speech that law and morality are themselves natural developments, necessary for human survival and the growth of civilization.
