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This open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on
relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular
view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but
seldom acknowledged let alone explicated. Addressing this neglected
area of research in economic studies, altogether the contributors
touch upon the importance and potential of virtues, the notions of
freedom and self-love, the potential of simulation models, the
dialectics of love, and questions of methodology in constructing a
relational anthropology for contemporary economics. The overall
result is a highly informative and constructive dialogue,
establishing inter alia a research agenda for future collaborative
and multidisciplinary study.
This open access volume makes an important contribution to the
ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its
long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first
part, it recognizes the importance of the centuries-old reflection
on hope by offering historical perspectives and tracing it back to
ancient Greek philosophy. At the same time, it provides novel
perspectives on often-overlooked historical theories and
developments and challenges established views. The second part of
the volume documents the state of the art of current research in
hope across eight disciplines, which are philosophy, theology,
psychology, economy, sociology, health studies, ecology, and
development studies. Taken together, this volume provides an
integrated view on hope as a multi-faced phenomenon. It contributes
to the further understanding of hope as an essential human
capacity, with the possibility of transforming our human societies.
This volume focuses on 'fittingness' as an ethical-aesthetical
idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for
environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of
contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but
under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both
ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Individuals and communities make
numerous decisions about courses of action which are informed by
judgements of 'fit'. 'Fittingness' denotes a relation between
conscious embodied persons and their habitats and is of relevance
to judgements about how humans shape, and take up with, the
non-human environment, and hence to ethical decisions about the
development and use of the environment and non-human creatures.
Fittingness interacts powerfully with a whole cluster of relational
and moral terms - such as appropriateness, prudence, temperance,
mutuality - that the book suggests can be of great benefit in
reframing human relationships to the non-human.
This open access book brings together works by specialists from
different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus
between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with
regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain,
complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all,
what our VUCA world entails, and how it affects businesses,
organizations, and societies as a whole. Secondly, the book
develops new perspectives on the processes of leadership,
spirituality, and discernment, particularly in this VUCA context.
These perspectives are interdisciplinary in nature, and are
informed by e.g. management studies, leadership theory, philosophy,
and theology.
This book brings together a number of important essays on the
intersection of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship,
examining them through a shared focus on 'the will to serve'. This
combination bears out the insight that inspiring social and
economic leaders are able to transform a conflictual human
settlement into a collaborative and caring human community. The
book seeks to answer the question of whether we can induce from
their 'way of doing things' a model of civic entrepreneurship and
leadership that can inspire people in profit, non-profit and public
organizations. It also examines the extent to which the will to
serve is compatible with the will to maximize profit or the will to
gain economic, political or religious power. Furthermore, it asks
how far different spiritual traditions create different models and
examples of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship. This
book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of
business ethics, business spirituality and corporate social
responsibility.
The experience of moral values is often side-lined in discussions
about moral reasoning, and yet our values define a large part of
our moral motives, standards and expectations. Theological Ethics
and Moral Value Phenomena explores whether the experience of a
meeting point of the immanent and the transcendent, i.e. the moral
self and God, can be the source of our values. The book starts by
arguing for a greater theological engagement with value ethics,
personalism and the phenomenological method by drawing on thinkers
such as Max Scheler and William James. It then provides an
understanding of the social and religious dimension of the valuing
person, demonstrating the importance of the emotional, as well as
the cognitive, dimension of value experience. Finally, this value
perspective is utilised to engage with current moral issues such as
professional ethics, environmental ethics, economical ethics and
family ethics. Integrating the concepts of religious experience,
moral motivation, and subjective and objective value within a broad
framework of Christian theology and philosophy, this is vital
reading for any scholar of Theology and Philosophy with an interest
in ethics and moral reasoning.
This open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on
relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular
view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but
seldom acknowledged let alone explicated. Addressing this neglected
area of research in economic studies, altogether the contributors
touch upon the importance and potential of virtues, the notions of
freedom and self-love, the potential of simulation models, the
dialectics of love, and questions of methodology in constructing a
relational anthropology for contemporary economics. The overall
result is a highly informative and constructive dialogue,
establishing inter alia a research agenda for future collaborative
and multidisciplinary study.
This book brings together a number of important essays on the
intersection of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship,
examining them through a shared focus on 'the will to serve'. This
combination bears out the insight that inspiring social and
economic leaders are able to transform a conflictual human
settlement into a collaborative and caring human community. The
book seeks to answer the question of whether we can induce from
their 'way of doing things' a model of civic entrepreneurship and
leadership that can inspire people in profit, non-profit and public
organizations. It also examines the extent to which the will to
serve is compatible with the will to maximize profit or the will to
gain economic, political or religious power. Furthermore, it asks
how far different spiritual traditions create different models and
examples of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship. This
book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of
business ethics, business spirituality and corporate social
responsibility.
This open access volume makes an important contribution to the
ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its
long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first
part, it recognizes the importance of the centuries-old reflection
on hope by offering historical perspectives and tracing it back to
ancient Greek philosophy. At the same time, it provides novel
perspectives on often-overlooked historical theories and
developments and challenges established views. The second part of
the volume documents the state of the art of current research in
hope across eight disciplines, which are philosophy, theology,
psychology, economy, sociology, health studies, ecology, and
development studies. Taken together, this volume provides an
integrated view on hope as a multi-faced phenomenon. It contributes
to the further understanding of hope as an essential human
capacity, with the possibility of transforming our human societies.
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