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The Principle of Excellence - A Framework for Social Ethics (Hardcover)
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The Principle of Excellence - A Framework for Social Ethics (Hardcover)
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This book disturbs the "normal" and depoliticized meaning of virtue
through a genealogical reading of the debates, conceptual
struggles, and ambiguities that were cleansed by virtue ethicists
to produce today's conception of excellence. This approach provides
the narrative raw material to craft a new meaning of excellence as
a creative actualization of the potentials for human prosperity.
The fundamental question asked and addressed about excellence is
how communities can use excellence as the organizing principle for
political and economic development. The author explores how
large-scale modern societies can be better administered in
environments characterized by contingency and possibilities. At the
very least, excellence in societal governance practice should
involve the creation of possibilities for community and
participation by all its members so that their potentialities can
be drawn out for the common good. The book also explores the
connection between excellence and creativity. If excellence is the
drive toward actualization of potentialities for all human beings,
it follows that human creativity is an adequate form for that
movement. The author not only attempts to trace and clarify the
mystique of the creative functions of persons and social groups,
but also shows how the creative functions of human life can express
the unconditional eros of divine creativity. In the process of
doing all this, the author offers a fresh and provocative
perspective of philosophy and theology's oldest concerns: the good,
truth, beauty, justice, love, hope, and the eschatological New
Creation.
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