Qualitative Freedom Autonomy In Cosmopolitan Responsibility

Author : Claus Dierksmeier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030047238

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Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility by Claus Dierksmeier Pdf

In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the principle of liberty in order to revive it. It discusses many different aspects that fall under its three main topics: the metaphysics of freedom, quantitative freedom and qualitative freedom. Open societies worldwide have come under increasing pressure in the last decades. The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as terrorism, climate warming, inequality, populism, and financial crises. In the view of its critics, the idea of freedom no longer offers adequate guidance to meet these challenges and should be partially corrected or even entirely replaced by countervailing values. Against the reduction of freedom to the merely quantitative question as to how much liberties individuals call their own, this book draws attention to the qualitative concerns which and whose opportunities society should foster. It argues that, correctly understood, the idea of liberty commits us to defend as well as advance the freedom of each and every world citizen.

Author : Claus Dierksmeier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1013275632

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Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility by Claus Dierksmeier Pdf

In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the principle of liberty in order to revive it. It discusses many different aspects that fall under its three main topics: the metaphysics of freedom, quantitative freedom and qualitative freedom. Open societies worldwide have come under increasing pressure in the last decades. The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as terrorism, climate warming, inequality, populism, and financial crises. In the view of its critics, the idea of freedom no longer offers adequate guidance to meet these challenges and should be partially corrected or even entirely replaced by countervailing values. Against the reduction of freedom to the merely quantitative question as to how much liberties individuals call their own, this book draws attention to the qualitative concerns which and whose opportunities society should foster. It argues that, correctly understood, the idea of liberty commits us to defend as well as advance the freedom of each and every world citizen. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Dirk C. Moosmayer,Oliver Laasch,Carole Parkes,Kenneth G. Brown
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529730302

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The SAGE Handbook of Responsible Management Learning and Education by Dirk C. Moosmayer,Oliver Laasch,Carole Parkes,Kenneth G. Brown Pdf

Reflecting the rapid rise in popularity of recent initiatives such as the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), this handbook exhaustively covers a variety of responsible management, learning and education topics, and provides an invaluable roadmap for this fast-developing field. Covering various perspectives on the topic, right through to contexts, methods, outcomes and beyond, this volume will be an invaluable integrative resource for practitioners and researchers alike, and is designed to serve a range of communities that deal with topics related to sustainability, responsibility and ethics in management learning and education.

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs,Owen Flanagan,Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo,William Vendley,Anthony Annett,Jesse Thorson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231554756

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Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development by Jeffrey D. Sachs,Owen Flanagan,Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo,William Vendley,Anthony Annett,Jesse Thorson Pdf

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world’s religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common, and how can these shared values help advance global goals? This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts. Drawing on more than two years of close-knit discussions convened by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, it offers an extensive and inclusive vision of how to promote human flourishing. The book features theological, philosophical, and ethical deliberations of great diversity and depth on the challenges of sustainable development, addressing questions of poverty, environmental justice, peace, conflict, and the future of work. It includes consensus statements on the moral imperatives of sustainable development, introductions to seven major religious traditions and their conceptions of the common good, and thematic reflections. Wide-ranging and urgent, this book represents a major contribution to interreligious dialogue and to the articulation of a shared global ethics. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

Author : Ernst von Kimakowitz,Hanna Schirovsky,Carlos Largacha-Martínez,Claus Dierksmeier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030515454

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Humanistic Management in Practice by Ernst von Kimakowitz,Hanna Schirovsky,Carlos Largacha-Martínez,Claus Dierksmeier Pdf

This book demonstrates how principles of a Humanistic Management paradigm are practiced in a variety of industries and regions by businesses of different ownership structures and sizes. What unites these businesses is their commitment to the three stepped approach of Humanistic Management, which is grounded in unconditional respect for the dignity of life, the integration of ethics in management decisions, and active engagement with stakeholders. These businesses are not labeled social enterprises, but operate within the mainstream of competitive markets. However, they do have a deep sense of responsibility towards the communities in which they operate and act accordingly, knowing that sustaining business success over time depends on a value proposition to society at large. The cases featured in this book serve to clarify that businesses can thrive not despite but because they are upholding principles of Humanistic Management. It will be valuable reading for academics working in the field of business ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Author : Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783658429485

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Creating the University of the Future by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers Pdf

Author : Michael G. Festl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000293920

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Pragmatism and Social Philosophy by Michael G. Festl Pdf

This book explores the role that American pragmatism played in the development of social philosophy in 20th-century Europe. The essays in the first part of the book show how the ideas of Peirce, James, and Dewey influenced the traditions of European philosophy, especially existentialism and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, that emerged in the 20th century. The second part of the volume deals with current challenges in social philosophy. The essays here demonstrate how discussions of two core issues in social philosophy—the conception of social conflict and the public—can be enriched with pragmatist resources. In featuring both historical and conceptual perspectives, these essays provide a full picture of pragmatism’s role in the development of Continental social philosophy. Pragmatism and Social Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on American philosophy, social philosophy, and Continental philosophy.

Author : Wolf Rainer Wendt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783658384609

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The order of the world in house and state by Wolf Rainer Wendt Pdf

In the world, the home and the state prove themselves and change as basic institutions of human coexistence. They are the subject of a comparative study on an ecotheoretical basis. In the global context, the modes of social control have developed differently in the home and the state. In and with them, order is created in the world and for the individual and collective conduct of life. The institutional frameworks of house and state in the world are ways of shaping existence that are juxtaposed in their European-Occidental and East Asian forms: Their discussion takes place along the ancient Greek basic concepts and forms of thought of the oikos, the polis and the cosmos on the one hand and the ancient Chinese categories jia, guo and tianxia on the other. They are discussed with their ethical, political and economic references in their traditional and contemporary meaning and with regard to their ecological sustainability. The interest in a discursive understanding of sustainable, life-serving orders in the face of global challenges is the guiding principle

Author : Susana Nuccetelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107067646

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An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy by Susana Nuccetelli Pdf

This introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the central topics in Latin American philosophy. It explores not only the unique insights offered by Latin American thinkers into pre-established fields of Western philosophy, but also the many 'isms' developed as a direct result of Latin American thought.

Author : Jan-Christoph Heilinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110612271

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Cosmopolitan Responsibility by Jan-Christoph Heilinger Pdf

The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities of privileged individuals to take action in the face of global structural injustice. Individuals are called upon to complement institutional efforts to respond to global challenges, such as climate change, unfair global trade, or world poverty. Committed to an ideal of relational equality among all human beings, the book discusses the impact of individual action, the challenge of special obligations, and the possibility of moral overdemandingness in order to lay the ground for an action-guiding ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility. This thought-provoking book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about justice and responsibilities in a globalised world. Jan-Christoph Heilinger is a moral and political philosopher. He teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and at Ecole normale supérieure, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Author : Claus Dierksmeier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319323008

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Reframing Economic Ethics by Claus Dierksmeier Pdf

This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day. Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the need for a paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management, and argues that the failures of markets and managers in recent years were paved by a misguided management education. The author shows how the reader can and must learn from the history of economic thinking in order to overcome the theoretical shortcomings and the practical failings of the present system.

Author : Stan van Hooft,Wim Vandekerckhove
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048187041

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Questioning Cosmopolitanism by Stan van Hooft,Wim Vandekerckhove Pdf

Wim Vandekerckhove and Stan van Hooft The philosopher, Diogenes the Cynic, in the fourth century BCE, was asked where he came from and where he felt he belonged. He answered that he was a “citi- 1 zen of the world” (kosmopolitês) . This made him the rst person known to have described himself as a cosmopolitan. A century later, the Stoics had developed that concept further, stating that the whole cosmos was but one polis, of which the order was logos or right reason. Living according to that right reason implied showing goodness to all of human kind. Through early Christianity, cosmopolitanism was given various interpretations, sometimes quite contrary to the inclusive notion of the Stoics. Augustine’s interpretation, for example, suggested that only those who love God can live in the universal and borderless “City of God”. Later, the red- covery of Stoic writings during the European Renaissance inspired thinkers like Erasmus, Grotius and Pufendorf to draw on cosmopolitanism to advocate world peace through religious tolerance and a society of states. That same inspiration can be noted in the American and French revolutions. In the eighteenth century, enlig- enment philosophers such as Bentham (through utilitarianism) and Kant (through universal reason) developed new and very different versions of cosmopolitanism that serve today as key sources of cosmopolitan philosophy. The nineteenth century saw the development of new forms of transnational ideals, including that of Marx’s critique of capitalism on behalf of an international working class.

Author : Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317159124

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Cosmopolitan Business Ethics by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Pdf

In Cosmopolitan Business Ethics: Towards a Global Ethos of Management, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff maps the concept of global business ethics, related to sustainability and corporate governance, via an examination of the major theories of business ethics and the philosophy of management. The book is based on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and the European tradition, which is applied as the foundation for the analysis of the contemporary European and Anglo-American debate on business ethics in order to formulate an up-to-date theory of global business ethics. The book will compare the different schools of business ethics, corporate citizenship, and the philosophy of management and will address the modern-day issues of sustainability, business and human rights, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder management, and corporate governance, offering insights on how to deal with these international challenges of global economics, the development and protection of human rights, and the environment. This book proposes a decision-making model for cosmopolitan business ethics as the foundation of management and leadership in dealing with the complexities of globalization. The case studies will address the efforts of businesses to work with global and cosmopolitan business ethics at the levels of maintaining corporate integrity. Both the theoretical argument and case studies presented in the book are based on exchanges with notable business ethicists, philosophers of management, business managers, and public policy-makers.

Author : Emilio Santoro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 140201404X

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Autonomy, Freedom and Rights by Emilio Santoro Pdf

Santoro (history and theory of law, U. of Florence, Italy) finds some difficulties with the fact that most legal and political philosophers ground liberal political theory, as well as anchor basic rights, in the value of individual autonomy. He begins his account by reviewing the debate around the notion of individual autonomy that took place in the 1970s and 1980s, especially among English speakers. Then he uses a genealogical approach to argue that the hierarchical-dualistic model is the anthropological premise of contractarian liberal theories. He concludes that a liberal theory based on individual autonomy requires giving up the anthropological model of the owning individual, which was borrowed from 13th-century Franciscan voluntarist theology. He does not index subjects. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Moises Lino e Silva,Huon Wardle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317415497

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Freedom in Practice by Moises Lino e Silva,Huon Wardle Pdf

‘Freedom’ is one of the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. This book provides an up-to-date overview from an anthropological perspective of the diverse ways in which freedom is understood and practised in everyday life, including the emergent relationships between governance, autonomy and liberty. The contributors offer a wealth of ethnographic insight from a variety of geographic, cultural and political contexts. Taken together the essays constitute a radical challenge to assumptions about what freedom means in today’s world.