Beyond the neo-liberal value discourse towards a concept of social wealth

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Emma Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The Common ◽  
Social Wealth ◽  
Extrinsic Values

A neo-liberal narrative dominates the cultural value discourse wherein the value of publicly funded art and higher education is increasingly assessed on the basis of extrinsic values. Higher education is expected to contribute to the knowledge economy and the arts to social amelioration, cultural tourism and regeneration. Such an overt focus on the extrinsic values of art and education sidelines their intrinsic values – how they contribute to the common good by promoting collective well-being and sustaining a critical public sphere. Rather than arguing for how their intrinsic values might be marshalled into this neo-liberal value discourse as many cultural analysts continue to do, this article calls for a redefinition of value based on principles of commoning. In place of ‘value’, it looks to the concept of ‘social wealth’, which is created by radical experiments in producing the commons. It considers how ‘art institutions of the common’ and ‘universities of the common’ that have emerged in recent years are producing forms of social wealth that offer a viable alternative to the neo-liberal discourse of value.

scholarly journals Unlocking the Potential of Higher Education by Serving the Common Good

2021 ◽  
pp. 337-343
Author(s):  
Patrick Blessinger ◽  
Enakshi Sengupta ◽  
Mandla S. Makhanya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Common ◽  
Democratic Principles

AbstractThe more pluralistic a society, the more diverse its educational system tends to be to address the diverse needs within society. No single institutional type and no single pedagogical approach can hope to address all the diverse educational and learning needs within society. In short, a one-size-fits-all approach to higher education is not well-suited to the modern age, which is increasingly characterized by diversity, complexity, uncertainty, risk, and hyper-connectivity. Furthermore, the democratic principles of inclusion, equity, justice, and rights require a more pluralistic structure to meet the diverse needs of society at all levels and in all segments. Therefore, a diverse higher education system is better able to promote the general well-being of society.

scholarly journals World-Class Universities and the Common Good

2018 ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Lin Tian ◽  
Wu Yan ◽  
Nian Cai Liu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Role ◽  
World Class ◽  
Advanced Knowledge ◽  
The Common ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Rethinking Education

Based on UNESCO’s report Rethinking Education towards a Global Common Good (2015) and developments in higher education, this article explores the reasons behind the shift from “public good” to “common good” in higher education. It focuses on the special role of world-class universities (WCUs) with regard to the global common good, as a result of their international orientation and emphasis on global development and the well-being of global communities. WCUs deliver advanced knowledge and research outputs and, more importantly, help shape and realize the global common good (i.e., the promotion of peace) shared by all mankind.

scholarly journals World-Class Universities and the Common Good

2018 ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Lin Tian ◽  
Wu Yan ◽  
Nian Cai Liu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Role ◽  
World Class ◽  
Advanced Knowledge ◽  
The Common ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Rethinking Education

Based on UNESCO’s report Rethinking Education towards a Global Common Good (2015) and developments in higher education, this article explores the reasons behind the shift from “public good” to “common good” in higher education. It focuses on the special role of world-class universities (WCUs) with regard to the global common good, as a result of their international orientation and emphasis on global development and the well-being of global communities. WCUs deliver advanced knowledge and research outputs and, more importantly, help shape and realize the global common good (i.e., the promotion of peace) shared by all mankind.

Vickers Hot Springs

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Common Property Resource ◽  
Resource Conflict ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Common

Vickers Hot Springs is located near the rural Southern California town of Ojai, and local residents have long enjoyed soaking in the sulfuric pools. But as knowledge of the springs spread, the area saw increases in fights, traffic, burglaries, and drug use. In response, two residents purchased the land and committed to restore the property while allowing limited public access, subsequently generating a great deal of controversy within the community. Privatizing Vickers Hot Springs follows the archetypical lesson of Garrett Hardin's 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Hardin stated that the problem for common-pool resources was that a finite amount of services are demanded by a potentially infinite number of users, who have little to gain by sacrificing for the common good. But Hardin's theory does not always apply. Many communities have come together to manage resources, often without government oversight. Thus, the question is not whether or not Hardin's theory is accurate, but rather “under what conditions it is correct and when it makes the wrong predictions.” Case studies provide nuance to the broad brushstrokes of a theory, and whether Hardin's parable is applicable depends on the particularities of the common property resource conflict. Employing the frameworks established by Hardin, Dietz et al., and Ostrom, this paper examines the management of Vickers Hot Springs within its broader social, ecological, and political context, asking whether the particular circumstances of this resource use conflict made privatization the most predictable outcome.

The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110668
Author(s):  
Christopher Williams ◽  
Bruce Arrigo
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Offender Therapy ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
The Common ◽  
Over Time

Within the theoretical literature on crime control and offender therapy, little has been written about the importance of virtue ethics in the experience of human justice and in the evolution of the common good. As a theory of being, the aretaic tradition extols eudemonic existence (i.e., excellence, flourishing) as a relational habit of developing character that is both practiced and embodied over time. What this implies is that virtue justice depends on a set of assumptions and predispositions—both moral and jurisprudential—whose meanings are essential to comprehending its psychological structure. This article sets out to explore several themes that our integral to our thesis on the virtues (i.e., the being) of justice. We reclaim justice’s aretaic significance, critique the common conflation of justice and law, discuss how the dominant legalistic conception of justice is rooted in a particular view of human nature, suggest how justice might be more properly grounded in natural moral sensibilities, and provide a tentative explication of the psychological character of justice as a twofold moral disposition. Given this exploratory commentary, we conclude by reflecting on how individual well-being, system-wide progress, and transformative social change are both possible and practical, in the interest of promoting the virtues of justice within the practice of crime control and offender therapy.

Gross National Happiness (GNH)

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gene R. Laczniak ◽  
Nicholas J. C. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gross National Happiness ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Classical Utilitarianism ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Common ◽  
National Happiness ◽  
Essential Contribution ◽  
Purpose Of Business

This theoretical commentary explores the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) and connects it with several central macromarketing concepts such as QoL, ethics, the common good, the purpose of market activity as well as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The paper portrays GNH as a normative concept that captures collective well-being; it categorizes GNH, at least from the standpoint of Western moral philosophy, as most closely aligned with classical utilitarianism, and it distinguishes GNH from QoL on the basis of its predominantly aspirational and subjective orientation. It asserts that GNH can be seen as one manifestation of the common good, and, in that manner can be perceived as a ‘more ethical’ conception of the purpose of business activity. Finally, it links GNH to promising areas of Macromarketing scholarship. One essential contribution of this commentary is that it differentiates subjective community happiness from more objective measures of QoL familiar to macromarketing studies.

scholarly journals THE IDEALISM OF DIALOGUE AND THE ECONOMY OF THE COMMONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Fernando Suárez Müller ◽  
Christian Felber
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Cooperative Action ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the possibility of an economic system different from both capitalism and communism, that is based on the major ethical values that constitute the principles of human dialogue, the so-called Idealism of Dialogue. This implies an economic model based on cooperativism. An economy modelled in this way envisions the Common Good of society. This is more than the sum of the interests of individuals and it can be measured by looking at the intended impact on society of actions taken by organizations. If the impact of these organizations is oriented towards cooperative action they can be characterized as developing the Common Good. If they block cooperative action they can be seen to be serving private interests. This paper shows how a group of Austrian entrepreneurs has started a network of enterprises that functions both as a kind of cooperative and as a non-governmental organization (Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie). They promote the ideals of Greek oỉkonomía and at the same time consider their own efforts to be the accomplishment of the main principles of Enlightenment which are liberty, equality and fraternity. 

“To Spread Throughout the Land, an Army of Practical Men”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
The Common

This chapter discusses the emergence of a social ethos of practicality in higher education by the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout the antebellum era, the expansion of scientific and technical knowledge joined with the rise of political populism to lead existing institutions to add practical studies to their curricula. Many advocates of practical studies, however, were not satisfied with simply incorporating courses or appending schools to already-established colleges and universities. They sought to break with tradition by establishing a new kind of higher-education institution, one that would teach students scientific and investigative principles while also requiring the application of those principles outside of the classroom, both on the farm and in the field. This new institutional type would contribute to the common good by being unprecedentedly accessible and affordable to agrarian and laboring youth. The chapter then looks at the establishment of the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.

The Breath of Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 1574-1592
Author(s):  
Gönül Kaya Özbağ
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Corporate Citizenship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Ethical Concept ◽  
Global Corporate Citizenship ◽  
The Common ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter aims to contribute to the debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainable development (SD) and global corporate citizenship (GCC) that is becoming increasingly an important issue for the human well being as well as that of ecological systems. It contains three sections. The first section looks at the concept of CSR with a historical perspective. The dimensions of CSR and its relationship with ethical theories is investigated in the second section since CSR is an ethical concept. Throughout this chapter three main groups of ethical theories classified by Garriga and Mele (2004) will be presented such as normative stakeholder theory, universal rights, the common good approach. Based on the relationship between common good approach and sustainable development, the author will discuss a requirement for global corporate citizenship approach in the third section.

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