Notes for a Third Millennial Manifesto: Renewal and Redefinition in Business Ethics

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Silicon Based

Abstract:Business ethics in the new millennium will confront both new and old questions that are being transformed by the changed pace and direction of human evolution. These questions embrace human nature, values, inquiring methods, technological change, geopolitics, natural disasters, and the moral role of business in all of these. The emergence and acceptance of technosymbolic phenomena may signal a slow transition of carbon-based human life toward greater dependence upon silicon-based virtualities across a wide range of human possibilities. The resultant moral issues call for a renewal and redefinition of business ethics theories and methods.

Business Ethics is Socio-Political, or Not at All

2015 ◽  
pp. 251-281
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Pascal
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Kantian Ethics ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the moral aspects of commercial deals that allegedly democratic governments enter into with foreign investors. These are discussed against a twofold theoretical background – where the philosophical ideal of public ethics based on truth and transparency meets business ethics theories. The Kantian ethics of duty proves to be the key link between these, as particularly relevant for cases where the impact on a wide range of stakeholders is considerable. The main case under consideration is the controversial USD $2 billion Romanian mining project at Rosia Montana, which highlights the need for accountability mentioned above and lends itself well to a multi-fold business ethics analysis. The role of the civil society in effectively stopping the project is a good illustration of the stakeholder theory. The chapter concludes with the thesis that a high degree of socio-political responsibility may be best achieved when trying to combine principle-based and utilitarian thinking.

scholarly journals Guiding Light

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
'AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Needy

TranslationIn the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful.  19. Truly man was created Very impatient;20. Fretful when evilTouches him;Good reaches him;22. Not so those decotedTo prayer;23. Those who remain steadfastTo their prayer;24. And those in whose wealthIs a recognised right;25. For the (needy) who asksAnd him who is prevented(For some reason from asking);26. And those who holdTo the truth of theDay Of Judgment;27. And those who fearThe displeasure of their Lord, . . .29. And those who guardTheir chasity, . . . ;32. And those who respectTheir trusts and covenants;33. And those who stand firmIn their testimonies;34. And those who guard(The sacredness) of their worship;35. Such will beThe honoured onesIn the Gardens (of Bliss). Surah LXX.For behavioral scientists, especially psychologists and psychiatrists, mostof whom these days are preoccupied with wide-spread psychological anxietiesand suicidal behavior, the Qur'an in this part of Surah al Ma'arij proposescertain traits and qualities of man which counter human fears and anxieties.It is the duty of Muslim behavioral scientists in general and psychiatrists inparticular to study and research these Qur'anic directions and propositionsabout human nature, and the traits, habits and behaviors necessary to countertheir negative effects on human life, peace and mind and gratification. It istheir duty to make people understand the important role of these Qur'anic directionsin human life and suggest the ways and means to the Muslims to develop ...

Role Of Ethics In Modern Business Paradigm

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 2285-2294
Author(s):  
DIKSHA PAHUJA
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Insider Trading ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
New Business ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Corporate Social

Business ethics is the study of proper business policies and practices regarding potentially controversial issues such as corporate governance, Insider trading, bribery, discrimination, corporate social responsibility and fiduciary responsibilities .Business ethics simply we mean that the application of ethics in business. The study concentrates on how the modern businesses are accelerated by applying the code of conduct in the environment of the business. The article discusses the survival of modern in the present society. The results of this study would help the modern industries in achieving their targeted result in a smooth way. The existing companies can improve their practices and new business can comply with the results for better performance. This article also describes the ethical issues, which are vital to solving the problems related to business, and to give short preface to the moral issues drawn in the management of explicit problem areas in business.

Business Ethics is Socio-Political, or Not at All

2016 ◽  
pp. 1560-1590
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Pascal
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Kantian Ethics ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the moral aspects of commercial deals that allegedly democratic governments enter into with foreign investors. These are discussed against a twofold theoretical background – where the philosophical ideal of public ethics based on truth and transparency meets business ethics theories. The Kantian ethics of duty proves to be the key link between these, as particularly relevant for cases where the impact on a wide range of stakeholders is considerable. The main case under consideration is the controversial USD $2 billion Romanian mining project at Rosia Montana, which highlights the need for accountability mentioned above and lends itself well to a multi-fold business ethics analysis. The role of the civil society in effectively stopping the project is a good illustration of the stakeholder theory. The chapter concludes with the thesis that a high degree of socio-political responsibility may be best achieved when trying to combine principle-based and utilitarian thinking.

Bataille, Georges (1897–1962)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Maskit
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Limits Of Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Formally Trained

Georges Bataille was born in Billom, France, raised in Reims, and spent much of his adult life in Paris. Never formally trained as a philosopher, he worked from 1922 to 1942 as a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale. In addition to his philosophical works, Bataille also wrote on the history of art as well as a number of critical works and novels. Owing to his position outside academic philosophy, Bataille was able to treat diverse topics in ways which might have been unacceptable otherwise. His work addresses the importance of sacrifice, eroticism and death, as well as the kinds of ‘expenditure’ evidenced by what he called the general economy. It draws on diverse sources (Hegel, Nietzsche, Marcel Mauss, anthropological research, and the history of religion, among others) and treats a wide range of topics: the role of art in human life, the practice of sacrifice in ancient and modern cultures, the role of death in our understanding of subjectivity, and the limits of knowledge.

scholarly journals Role of IoT devices in Flood Monitoring System using Social Networking Sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1986-1994
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Response Recovery ◽  
Flood Monitoring ◽  
Disaster Losses ◽  
Iot Devices

Each country has a natural disaster, but catastrophe losses can't be avoided. The loss of human life, damage to the environment, infrastructure degradation, etc. Which in turn affects the country's development facing the disaster's wrath? In this analysis, we discuss the various methods available in the literature to reduce the losses in flood-related natural disasters. There are four major steps in the prevention of disaster losses, including preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. Existing methods that address the above steps and all the current methods have certain limitations and are therefore not all sufficient to minimize losses due to flooding. In order to overcome all the deficiencies in the exit method, we propose an IoT devices based algorithm to get the number of victims and survivors due to flood and reduce the flood losses model using social networking sites.

Animality in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
David Baumeister
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Universal History ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theory Of Human Nature

This chapter provides an overview of Kant’s conception of the animality (or Tierheit) of human beings. Though human animality is treated in a wide range of Kant’s writings, it has received relatively little attention from scholars, perhaps because Kant wrote no text principally devoted to the subject. With the aim of establishing its systematic unity, I track the status and role of animality across three distinct but interrelated domains of Kant’s theory of human nature—his account of animality as one of three basically good original human predispositions in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, his account of animality as the target of discipline in the pedagogy lectures, and his account of animality as simultaneously a driver of and hindrance to the progress of history in ‘Idea for a Universal History With a Cosmopolitan Aim’. I argue that these accounts, taken together and in light of the teleological vision of human development that connects them, manifest a distinctively Kantian vision of the human as an actively rational, but at the same time ineliminably animal, being. Far from denying that humans are animals or seeking to repress human animality wholesale, Kant in fact offers a nuanced and robust, though still problematic, defence of the necessity, innocence, and originality of the human’s animal side.

scholarly journals Ethics and Ego: East-West Perceptions of Morality

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geir Sigurðsson
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Human Life ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
East West

The thesis from which this comparison proceeds is that the major differences between the East-Asian and Western ethical traditions emanate from divergent views of the kind of role selfhood or ego should play in social human life. A comparison of these views, it is suggested, will be helpful to flesh out the different perceptions of morality. It will be proposed that Western thinking is characterized by a stronger focus on the self, and that while Western ethical thinkers and schools certainly seek to reduce self-centeredness, such endeavours generally proceed through an augmentation of the role of human reason and thus a more intense and even tormenting self-consciousness. A clear reflection of this tendency is the ethical approach to moral issues qua issues associated with individual action and rational choice. The East-Asian approach differs from this in that it seeks to balance excessive introspection with a cultivated ‘sense’ of identification with the whole, be it society or the natural realm. While this approach, it seems, largely succeeds in preventing an existential kind of agony, it nevertheless suffers from some other serious weaknessess. Hence both traditions, it is argued, have something to offer one other. The discussion offered here is merely a sketchy outline that may hopefully work as a first step toward that purpose.

scholarly journals Studium przypadku jako metoda nauczania etyki biznesu

2012 ◽  
pp. 181-203
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Szulczewski
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Teaching Ethics ◽  
Teaching Business Ethics ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Teaching Business ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Teaching Goal ◽  
Case Study Teaching

The Harvard Business School introduced the practice of teaching business ethics through case study. This article presents the characteristics of teaching business ethics through case study. First we answered the question: how to build a case study? Then we showed how moral problems are solved through a case study. Next we showed the types of case study (teaching goal, kind of moral issues, the role of ethics and problems of this method of teaching). Then we answered the question how to use the methods of philosophy for the analysis of case study. We have considered the problem of the moral level of the students who solved the case study. Turning to practical matters provides instructions for building a case study. Finally, we showed that solving the case study not only provides a valuable method of teaching ethics in the business, but is valuable for professional ethics.

scholarly journals Zabójstwo ideologiczne w twórczości Fiodora Dostojewskiego

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (55) ◽  
pp. 267-283
Author(s):  
Agata Kilar
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Blind Faith

Ideological Killing in the Works of Fyodor DostoyevskyThe key issue of the article is the motivation for murder – the “ethics” of killing. The moral dimension of murder and the killer’s axiological awareness become crucial. The article answers questions about various aspects of murder. Is killing always wrong? Are there any situations in which the categorical ban on taking human life can be relativised in the context of the defence of another human being and higher values? Are there any values for the implementation of which political ideas and ideologies can justify mass murder, and, as a result, bloody revolution, war, and genocide? What is the role of a culture that promotes ideologies based on the idea of killing or internal fighting? The author deals with the issue of ideological murder in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novels. The article addresses moral issues concerning the murder, as well as the metaphysical dimension of crime. On the basis of Crime and Punishment and Demons, the author shows what blind faith in ideology can lead to.

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