Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, will provide their analysis on John Templeton’s Buena Vista speech on the economic vices and virtues in upcoming posts. Please consider entering our contest on this topic for a chance to win $500. One of the most interesting exercises we undertook after reviewing Sir John’s [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 1
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Business, Economy, Philosophy on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the last few months, we have posted excerpts from Sir John Templeton’s speech, “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise,” which he delivered to Buena Vista College in 1993. This speech outlined five economic vices (envy, greed, pride, intolerance, moral relativism) and five economic virtues (cooperation, creativity, charity, adaptability, and integrity). To continue our conversation [...]
Economic Virtue #5: Integrity
Posted in Business, Economy, Philosophy on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
John Templeton’s fifth economic virtue is integrity. He outlined this and the other economic virtues and vices in his speech to Buena Vista College, “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” The final economic virtue is the most important: it is integrity. In the Old Testament, we find many references to the uses of property. Most deal with the [...]
Economic Virtue #4: Adaptability
Posted in Business, Economy, Philosophy on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
John Templeton’s fourth economic virtue is adaptability. He outlined this and the other economic virtues and vices in his speech to Buena Vista College, “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” Just as there are many ways to be charitable, there are many ways people can contribute to society. That is why we need to be able to [...]
Economic Virtue #3: Charity
Posted in Philanthropy, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged charity, economic virtue, John Templeton, stewardship on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today we continue to explore what John Templeton listed as the five economic virtues by looking at his thoughts on charity. Again this is from his thought to Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” The third economic virtue is charity. Profit and exchange alone are not enough to sustain the good [...]
Economic Virtue #2: Creativity
Posted in Economy, Philosophy on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the last few months, we have shared what John Templeton thought were five economic vices: envy, greed, pride, intolerance, and moral relativism, as cited in his speech to Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” Now we are exploring what he listed as the five economic virtues. The second economic virtue is that [...]
Economic Virtue #1: Cooperation
Posted in Business, Economy, Philosophy on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the last few months, we have shared what John Templeton thought were five economic vices: envy, greed, pride, intolerance, and moral relativism, as cited in his speech to Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” Now we’ll explore his five economic virtues. The first virtue he lists is cooperation. The first economic virtue [...]
Economic Vice #5: Moral Relativism
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged John Templeton, moral relativism, vices, virtues on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our exploration of Sir John’s thoughts on spirituality and business continues today with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” In this excerpt, we’ll look at what he calls the fifth economic vice: moral relativism. The proper kind of tolerance is closely related to the fifth [...]
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