scholarly journals Business Ethics from the Standpoint of Redemption: Adorno on the Possibility of Good Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Craig Reeves ◽  
Matthew Sinnicks
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Social World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Theodor Adorno

Given his view that the modern world is “radically evil,” Theodor Adorno is an unlikely contributor to business ethics. Despite this, we argue that his work has a number of provocative implications for the field that warrant wider attention. Adorno regards our social world as damaged, unfree, and false, and we draw on this critique to outline why the achievement of good work is so rare in contemporary society, focusing in particular on the ethical demands of roles and the ideological nature of management’s self-understanding. Nevertheless, we show that Adorno’s comments on activities such as art and philosophy mean that it is possible to draw on his work in a way that contributes constructively to the conversation about good and meaningful work within business ethics.

scholarly journals Adorno's Critical Moral Philosophy and Business Ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Jaakko Nevasto
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Theodor Adorno

Reeves and Sinnicks present Theodor Adorno as a philosopher with a sombre message to business ethics. Capitalist markets distort our needs and work in business organisations stultifies our moral capacities. Thus, the discipline’s self-understanding must be revised, and supplemented with reflections on what would be good work: free creative activity. After raising some questions about their interpretation of Adorno’s writings on human needs, I argue that the paper does not contain all the necessary resources to support its ferociously critical claims. Once such resources are made available, however, the appeal to a notion of good work is no longer viable.

Political Calling in an Age of Technology

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-70
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
The Impact

The modern world has been marked by a recurring sense of the degradation of language. According to Hannah Arendt, for whom the possibility of politics is interdependent with the possibility of authentic speech, this generates a political crisis, connected to the role of science in contemporary society. The impact of science on the language of public discourse is further explored through Habermas and Uwe Poerksen. Their analyses receive added force through the development of new communications technologies that are proving fateful both for individuals and their personal relationship as well as for political life. Though acknowledging the optimism still associated with these technologies in some quarters, the chapter asks how we can protect against their negative effects. The thought of Byung-Chul Han is used to identify the need for attentive listening and a sense of the uniqueness of the human countenance and name to counter the digital shitstorm.

Responsibilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-156
Author(s):  
Rosie Lavan
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Conor Cruise ◽  
University Setting

Rooted in the poetry and prose of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and drawing heavily on unpublished material, this final chapter, Chapter 5, finds Seamus Heaney in another university setting, this time in Oxford. Taking its cue from Heaney’s own interest, in The Redress of Poetry, in the question of responsibility, it examines the complex intersections of the imagination with the challenges of contemporary society and the burden of history. It brings Heaney into dialogue with figures as diverse as Coleridge, Conor Cruise O’Brien, and Raymond Williams, and it charts the development of two key poems, ‘The Diviner’ and ‘Markings’, in order to illuminate his various expressions of the fraught but necessary interactions between the private artist and their social world.

scholarly journals Can Homeopathy, a Particularly Mild Therapeutic Approach, Survive and Grow in a World of Violence?

Homeopathy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 109 (03) ◽  
pp. 179-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Vithoulkas
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Therapeutic Approach ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Therapeutic System ◽  
Personalized Approach ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Clinical Problems

AbstractThis short treatise addresses a philosophical question concerning the place of homeopathy in our modern world. The question raised is whether a therapeutic system as peaceful, mild, and non-violent as homeopathy can survive and grow within a society that often displays the opposite characteristics.Much of contemporary society is more interested in fast and impressive cures, even if these may also bring side effects; whereas homeopathy can offer solutions with a personalized approach that requires long hours of case study by the homeopath to find the correct personal remedy that aims to bring about positive results, which the therapy can produce in deep chronic diseases.The conclusion drawn is that homeopathy does not readily fit within a modern and violent society that prefers quick and invasive solutions to its clinical problems.

The Politics of Dickens' Novels

PMLA ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 945-974
Author(s):  
Monroe Engel
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Brute Fact ◽  
Social Situations

In Dickens' novels, characters are cast in detailed and purposeful social situations, and an evaluated social world is created. Yet even those critics who agree roughly that this is so, and agree further on the stature of these novels, disagree markedly as to Dickens' own politics or view of society—disagree in fundamental respects, that is, on what disposition of mind lies behind and shapes these novels. Sometimes the disagreement has in part to do with personal conviction. G. K. Chesterton, a Catholic with mixed politics of his own, bolsters as he can Dickens' orthodoxy. T. A. Jackson, a naive Marxist with insufficient respect for brute fact, attempts to show that Dickens was a Communist in all but name, and “that the really fundamental incompatibility between Dickens and his wife lay in the complete antithesis of their convictions about contemporary society as a whole.”

scholarly journals Protocol SS7 and the Security of Mobile Networks

2019 ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Kristina Guzhakovskaya ◽  
Yuriy Umnitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Networks ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Global System ◽  
Telephone Exchange ◽  
Confidential Data ◽  
The World

The paper considers Global System for Mobile Communications, which plays the important role in contemporary society and carries new forms of dialog in the modern world. It is shown, that GSM-nets play two roles: firstly, they serve as communication tools for people who are in any point of world, and secondly, they can be used as tools for confidential data theft due to the old technology for telephone exchange setting, created as early as in the 1970s. Attacks using SS7 are often executed by hackers. After all, the attacker does not have to be close to the subscriber, and the attack can be made from anywhere on the planet. Therefore, to calculate the attacker is almost impossible, through this vulnerability can be hacked through almost any phone in the world. It will not be difficult to eavesdrop on conversations, intercept SMS, get access to the mobile Bank, social networks because of the vulnerability in the SS7 telephone infrastructure, through which service commands of cellular networks are transmitted. Due to the fact that the vulnerability with the Protocol SS7 is on the side of the operator, protection from such an attack is impossible. Until mobile operators are able to abandon this technology, this threat in the field of information security will remain relevant.

scholarly journals Robotics in the Modern World of Work - Results From an Empirical Study Regarding Business Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-249
Author(s):  
Daniela Ludin ◽  
Wanja Wellbrock ◽  
Erika Müller ◽  
Wolfgang Gerstlberger ◽  
Lea Gray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
Mechatronic Systems ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technological Standard

The digital revolution is changing the world. Robots, big data and artificial intelligence are the key technologies of the future and the basis of important innovations for the future development of the economy and society. In companies, this fact requires strategic rethinking and adjustments in ever-shorter time cycles. The creation of an agile and collaborative production to achieve the goals is often a basic requirement. With adaptation to technical progress, requirements and goals change continuously. To be and remain competitive, companies are forced to have at least the same technological standard as their competitors. In order to meet these challenges today, the use of highly efficient mechatronic systems such as robots is necessary. The paper analyses business ethics relevant aspects of robotics by using a survey with 88 respondents.

The University and the Unhinging of Society

Worldview ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
James V. Schall
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Western World ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Communications Media ◽  
Technological Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Race War

The attention of the Western world has been concentrated very forcibly in recent years on the meaning and the place of the university in contemporary society. Student unrest and political “activisim” have gained widespread publicity in all communications media and in every legislature. In France, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United States, the university confrontation has occasioned grave civil crises that have shaken the very stability of government itself. The origin and nature of this phenomenon is rooted in the intellectual history of the modern world which has sought to effect a humanism totally subject to man's intellectual and technological control. What we are now seeing is how this control is passing from thought and technique to political and messianic action, to movements which profess to “re-create” man in the midst of his most pressing crises of poverty, race, war, and equality.

Priesthood and Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Turbulent Career of Thomas Mcdonnell

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith F. Champ
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Pyramidal Structure ◽  
The Social

THE CONSEQUENCE of the Cisapline attempt to ‘grapple with the social and intellectual transformation of the modern world” and to bring about a ‘revision of the pyramidal structure of the Tridentine Church” was the greater assimilation of English Catholics into contemporary society. Encouraged by a new sense of freedom, clergy and laity participated more actively in English public life’ and dismantled much of the closed élite community of the recusant period. This led to a brief phase in which both clergy and laity exercised their new-found freedoms, but which was dogged by disputes. Arguments raged between liberalism and authority, and between sectarian ideals and non-denominational activities. They were eventually resolved in a restoration, by 1850, of the pyramidal structure of the Tridentine Church, in which the role of the laity was subject to the authority and guidance of the clergy.

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