Rinkos Etinės Ribos Pilietinės Visuomenės Tapsmo, Profesijos Autonomiškumo Ir As Meninių Santyki Ų Kontekste
Ethical Boundaries of the Market in the Context of the Becoming of Civil Society, the Occupation’s Autonomy and Personal Relations

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the extent to which the market is and can be free and where the ethical boundaries of its expression are. It shows that the market mostly motivates the individual’s economic activity and contributes to the creation of the commonwealth. The idea of freedom and choice, supported by the market, protects the occupation’s autonomy, encourages the citizens to join organizations that can take on work not performed properly by the state institutions and to monitor it effectively. On the other hand, the values created and cherished by the market are very specific (e.g. quality of consumption). They are undoubtedly significant but not the only ones. Everyone has the right and duty to go up to the values that are not recognized by the market but are personally important. And here he must feel the real support of the state whose aim is to create the conditions for each member of the society to strive for its welfare (personal goals) with regard to the highest values – human and his dignity, which cannot be sacrificed to the supposed omnipotence of the market. Since the goal of economic activity is to satisfy the needs of the individual and society, its results can be and should be measured not only according to economic ends (profit, productivity effectiveness), but also by ethical ones (a consistency of individual aspirations).

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