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Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good
No full textThis open access book traces the research and teaching contributions of Kenneth Goodpaster over more than 45 years of his career. The book shows the content and the progression of these themes over the years identifying four insights in applied ethics: the moral insight, the institutional insight, the anthropological insight, and the Socratic insight. It highlights such concepts as conscience, corporate responsibility, corporations as agents and as recipients, stockholders, stakeholders, comprehensive moral thinking, and ethics education. In addition, Goodpaster explains phrases such as teleopathy, moral projection, human dignity, and the common good. Finally, the book examines with concern the implications of the foregoing for the polarizing and partisan trends in contemporary business behavior. Kenneth Goodpaster’s new book, Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good reflects the culmination of 50 years of incredible philosophical insights forming the basis of business ethics. His concept of ‘corporate conscience’ as a moral projection from individual conscience to organizational behavior is both an original as well as a most worthwhile approach to organizational responsibility. Coupling that with a clear notion of the common good, Goodpaster provides substantive grounds for a creative analysis of ethical issues in business. This is one of the most exciting new books in the field. - Patricia H. Werhane, Professor Emerita, University of Virginia and Professor Emerita, DePaul University. "Beginners beware. “Wickedly interdisciplinary” describes corporate ethics. More than “interdisciplinary,” the field asks questions that range across disciplines, nations and centuries. Who better to cut this Gordian Knot than Ken Goodpaster, a true giant in the field, who mixes a prodigious knowledge of contemporary corporations with a deep understanding of intellectual history to produce a new and stunning amalgam. A must-read." - Thomas Donaldson, The Mark O. Winkelman Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania As one of the pioneers in business ethics, Kenneth Goodpaster has given us a great gift of synthesizing 50 years of philosophical reflection and corporate practice on some of the most important questions and issues for business today. This work is not nostalgia, but an important source of wisdom for leaders today and into the future. - Dr. Michael Naughton, Director, Center for Catholic Studies, Koch Chair in Catholic Studies, University of St. Thoma
Da considerabilidade moral dos seres vivos: a bioética ambiental de Kenneth E. Goodpaster
No full textEste artigo reconstitui a crítica e os argumentos de Kenneth E. Goodpaster contrários à proposta ética de Singer e Frankena, cujo critério definidor da linha divisória para a constituição da comunidade moral é a senciência. Goodpaster encontra limites no critério da senciência, por não ser apto a fundamentar uma ética genuinamente ambiental. Para o autor, o único critério de considerabilidade moral apto a fundar uma ética ambiental genuína é o da vida.</p
Da considerabilidade moral dos seres vivos: a bioética ambiental de Kenneth E. Goodpaster
No full textEste artigo reconstitui a crítica e os argumentos de Kenneth E. Goodpaster contrários à proposta ética de Singer e Frankena, cujo critério definidor da linha divisória para a constituição da comunidade moral é a senciência. Goodpaster encontra limites no critério da senciência, por não ser apto a fundamentar uma ética genuinamente ambiental. Para o autor, o único critério de considerabilidade moral apto a fundar uma ética ambiental genuína é o da vida
Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good
No full textThis open access book traces the research and teaching contributions of Kenneth Goodpaster over more than 45 years of his career. The book shows the content and the progression of these themes over the years identifying four insights in applied ethics: the moral insight, the institutional insight, the anthropological insight, and the Socratic insight. It highlights such concepts as conscience, corporate responsibility, corporations as agents and as recipients, stockholders, stakeholders, comprehensive moral thinking, and ethics education. In addition, Goodpaster explains phrases such as teleopathy, moral projection, human dignity, and the common good. Finally, the book examines with concern the implications of the foregoing for the polarizing and partisan trends in contemporary business behavior. Kenneth Goodpaster’s new book, Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good reflects the culmination of 50 years of incredible philosophical insights forming the basis of business ethics. His concept of ‘corporate conscience’ as a moral projection from individual conscience to organizational behavior is both an original as well as a most worthwhile approach to organizational responsibility. Coupling that with a clear notion of the common good, Goodpaster provides substantive grounds for a creative analysis of ethical issues in business. This is one of the most exciting new books in the field. - Patricia H. Werhane, Professor Emerita, University of Virginia and Professor Emerita, DePaul University. "Beginners beware. “Wickedly interdisciplinary” describes corporate ethics. More than “interdisciplinary,” the field asks questions that range across disciplines, nations and centuries. Who better to cut this Gordian Knot than Ken Goodpaster, a true giant in the field, who mixes a prodigious knowledge of contemporary corporations with a deep understanding of intellectual history to produce a new and stunning amalgam. A must-read." - Thomas Donaldson, The Mark O. Winkelman Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania As one of the pioneers in business ethics, Kenneth Goodpaster has given us a great gift of synthesizing 50 years of philosophical reflection and corporate practice on some of the most important questions and issues for business today. This work is not nostalgia, but an important source of wisdom for leaders today and into the future. - Dr. Michael Naughton, Director, Center for Catholic Studies, Koch Chair in Catholic Studies, University of St. Thoma
O critério da vida para uma ética ambiental: concepção, filiação, conceitos, argumentos e propostas de Kenneth Goodpaster
No full textEste artigo reconstitui os aspectos centrais da proposta de Kenneth E. Goodpaster para a fundamentação de uma ética ambiental. Sua concepção, filiação teórica, conceitos, estratégia de argumentação e proposta são apresentados aqui de forma introdutória, ao leitor de língua portuguesa que não tem acesso ao texto original em inglês
O critério da vida para uma ética ambiental: concepção, filiação, conceitos, argumentos e propostas de Kenneth Goodpaster
No full textEste artigo reconstitui os aspectos centrais da proposta de Kenneth E. Goodpaster para a fundamentação de uma ética ambiental. Sua concepção, filiação teórica, conceitos, estratégia de argumentação e proposta são apresentados aqui de forma introdutória, ao leitor de língua portuguesa que não tem acesso ao texto original em inglês.</p
Conscience and corporate culture
No full textTo what ethical standards can we hold corporations? In the past few years, monumental corporate scandals have been emblazoned on every front page, but people have largely responded with ambivalence to events such as Enron's collapse and the tragedy of NASA's Columbia. In "Conscience and Corporate Culture," Goodpaster sets out to identify the common patterns among such recent events, and argues for the development of an ethical response. Reporting on more than three decades of professional evolution, the book serves as a platform for communication between doers and thinkers on a subject that is profoundly difficult and important. A vital resource for both educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives, this volume is an important step in advancing the constructive dialogue on corporate conscience. Perhaps we should ask no more of corporations than we ask of ourselves morally, but neither should we ask less
Biorregionalismo, ética e justiça ambiental
No full textNesse artigo, retomo a argumentação de Gary Snyder, um libertário biorregionalista, e do socialista John Clark, verificando os limites e possibilidades de suas propostas na formulação de uma ética ambiental, à luz dos critérios estabelecidos por Kenneth Goodpaster (vida) e por Tom Regan (valor inerente), para fundamentar uma ética genuinamente ambiental
Biorregionalismo, ética e justiça ambiental
No full textNesse artigo, retomo a argumentação de Gary Snyder, um libertário biorregionalista, e do socialista John Clark, verificando os limites e possibilidades de suas propostas na formulação de uma ética ambiental, à luz dos critérios estabelecidos por Kenneth Goodpaster (vida) e por Tom Regan (valor inerente), para fundamentar uma ética genuinamente ambiental.</p
Uma análise do ciclo de produção agroindustrial de suínos e aves, à luz da ética global
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Doutorado Interdisciplinar em Ciências HumanasA ética antropológica reconhece apenas o valor decorrente do benefício que os animais e o ambiente físico natural podem proporcionar aos seres humanos. Essa posição antropocêntrica é defendida na tentativa de promover um status moral diferenciado ao ser humano, fragmentando a discussão ética. Mas, quando se deseja agir eticamente, faz-se necessário englobar nessa discussão os critérios de inclusão na comunidade moral apresentados pela ética animal, pela ética ambiental e pela ética humana. A ética global busca um critério de consideração moral capaz de satisfazer, tanto as exigências formais da ética, universalidade, imparcialidade, generalidade, quanto a exigência substancial, o benefício àqueles que podem ser afetados pelos interesses dos agentes morais por estarem na condição de vulnerabilidade. O objetivo principal dessa tese é demonstrar as externalidades da atividade humana de produção industrial de frangos de corte e suínos para o abate e suas conseqüências na vida dos seres humanos, dos animais, e seus impactos no ambiente físico natural. São apresentados os argumentos de maior força para a elaboração de uma ética global analisando as propostas de Kenneth Goodpaster, Peter Singer, Michael W. Fox (ética humana, animal e ambiental) e Tom Regan (direitos morais). Os critérios de consideração moral, senciência e valor inerente, são escolhidos para sensibilizar e gerar um impulso suficiente para tirar o ser humano da inércia moral. Para tanto, buscouse demonstrar a importância de se superar o paradigma alimentar a partir do questionamento dos hábitos cotidianos, na tentativa de superar o limite da percepção psicológica da necessidade do agir ético. The anthropocentric vision of ethics just acknowledges the value deriving from the benefits animals and the natural physical environment may offer human beings. This anthropological vision is defended in an attempt to promote a differentiated moral status to human beings and thus fragmenting the ethical debate. However, when one desires to act ethically, it is deemed necessary to embody the inclusion criteria in the moral community to the debate presented by animal ethics, environmental ethics and human ethics. Global ethics seeks a criterium of moral consideration able to satisfy the formal demands of ethics, i.e., universality, impartiality, generality, as well as the substantial demand, i. e., the benefits to those who may be affected by the interests of the moral agents for being in the condition of vulnerability. The main purpose of this thesis consists of demonstrating the externalities of the human activity of industrial production of poultry and pigs for slaughter and its consequences for the lives of human beings, animals and its impact on the physical natural environment. The most powerful arguments for the elaboration of global ethics, analysing the proposals of Kenneth Goodpaster, Peter Singer, Michael W. Fox (human, animal and environmental ethics) and Tom Regan (moral rights) are presented. The moral consideration criteria, sentience and inherent value are chosen to sensitize and generate an impulse strong enough to jolt human beings out of their moral inertia. For that purpose, it is attempted to demonstrate the importance of overcoming the food paradigm, starting out from the questioning of daily habits, in an attempt to overcome the limit of psychological perception for the need of ethical acting
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