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Peace thanksgiving : "Laus Deo" /
No full textAlso available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn716557; FERG copy from Ferguson First World War, 1914-1919 pamphlet collection
Why business cannot be a practice
No full textIn a series of papers Geoff Moore has applied Alasdair MacIntyre’s much cited work to generate a virtue-based business ethics. Central to this pro ject is Moore’s argument that business falls under MacIntyre’s concept of ‘practice’. This move attempts to overcome MacIntyre’s reputation for being ‘anti-business’ while maintaining his framework for evaluating social action and replaces MacIntyre’s hostility to management with a conception of managers as institutional practitioners (craftsmen). I argue however that this move has not been justified. Given the importance MacIntyre places on the protection of practices, the result is that much of Moore’s contribution is misplaced. Business cannot name a practice but business institutions certainly do house practices. The task then is to try to understand the circumstances under which practices might flourish and those under which they might founder in a business context. This is not aided by Moore’s redescription of all businesses as practices
Does IQ explain socioeconomic inequalities in health? Evidence from a population based cohort study in the west of Scotland
No full text<b>Objective</b>: To test the hypothesis that IQ is a fundamental cause of socioeconomic inequalities in health.
<b>Design</b>: Cross sectional and prospective cohort study, in which indicators of IQ were assessed by written test and socioeconomic position by self report.
<b>Setting</b>: West of Scotland.
<b>Participants</b>: 1347 people (739 women) aged 56 in 1987.
<b>Main outcome measures</b>: Total mortality and coronary heart disease mortality (ascertained between 1987 and 2004); respiratory function, self reported minor psychiatric morbidity, long term illness, and self perceived health (all assessed in 1988).
<b>Results</b>: In sex adjusted analyses, indices of socioeconomic position (childhood and current social class, education, income, and area deprivation) were significantly associated with each health outcome. Thus the greatest risk of ill health and mortality was evident in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, as expected. After adjustment for IQ, a marked attenuation in risk occurred for poor mental health (range of attenuation in risk ratio across the five socioeconomic indicators: 15-58%), long term illness (25-53%), poor self perceived health (41-56%), respiratory function (44-66%), coronary heart disease mortality (31-111%), and total mortality (45-131%). Despite the clear reduction in the magnitude of these effects after controlling for IQ, in half of the associations examined the risk of ill health in socioeconomically disadvantaged people was still at least twice that of advantaged people. Statistical significance was lost for only 5/25 separate socioeconomic health gradients that showed significant relations in sex adjusted analyses.
<b>Conclusions</b>: Scores from the IQ test used here did not completely explain the socioeconomic gradients in health. However, controlling for IQ did lead to a marked reduction in the magnitude of these gradients. Further exploration of the currently scant information about IQ, socioeconomic position, and health is needed
L'utopia aristotelica di Alasdair MacIntyre
No full textIn his essay on The Aristotelian Utopia of Alasdair MacIntyre
Giovanni Giorgini investigates MacIntyre’s philosophical and political
project, trying to find unity and coherence in the Scottish
philosopher’s critique of the liberal State and in his proposal
to create local forms of community based on shared values so
that citizens may live an authentic and meaningful life. Following
Aristotle, MacIntyre believes that a good political arrangement is
conducive to human flourishing and criticizes the liberal State for
lacking an overarching notion of the good and for not allowing citizens
to actually live according to their vision of the good. MacIntyre’s
project, however, faces the same difficulties as Aristotle’s: it
mixes reality and ideal and does not take into account the changes
in the historical context (Alexander’s conquests on the one
hand, the novelties of political modernity on the other). Aristotle’s
and MacIntyre’s political visions share thus a utopian vein.In questo saggio Giovanni Giorgini analizza il progetto filosofico
e politico di MacIntyre, cercando di trovare unità e coerenza nella
sua critica allo Stato liberale e nella sua proposta di creare forme
di comunità locale basate su valori comuni in modo che i cittadini
possano vivere una vita autentica e dotata di significato. Sulla
scia di Aristotele, MacIntyre ritiene che per la realizzazione delle
nostre potenzialità umane sia necessario vivere in una società
buona e critica pertanto lo Stato liberale in quanto non avrebbe una nozione di bene comune e non consentirebbe in realtà ai cittadini
di vivere secondo la propria immagine del bene. Il progetto
di MacIntyre, tuttavia, incontra gli stessi problemi di quello di Aristotele:
unisce aspetti descrittivi e prescrittivi, idealità e realtà, e
non prende in considerazione i mutamenti nel contesto storico (le
conquiste di Alessandro, nel caso di Aristotele, e i cambiamenti
intervenuti con la modernità politica, nel caso del filosofo scozzese).
Le visioni politiche di Aristotele e di MacIntyre hanno pertanto
una vena utopica in comune
Leader narratives in Scottish banking: an Aristotelian approach
No full textThe banking sector has been under public scrutiny since the credit crisis of 2007/8, and a range of diagnoses and cures have been offered, particularly in terms of regulatory and financial structures. In the public media, much comment has been made about ethics in the sector, but this has provoked surprisingly little response from academic researchers. This thesis explores the crisis in banking as a moral one, taking Alasdair MacIntyre’s account of virtue ethics as a framework for understanding the careers of Scottish banking leaders.
The method used for the study is narrative, and depends both on MacIntyre’s philosophy of tradition-constituted enquiry, and on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics. Conversations were held with ten leaders of Scottish banking whose careers typically span between 25 and 40 years, and the record of those conversations forms the primary data set for the research.
The resulting narratives are frank, rich descriptions of deeply felt changes in a particular mode of working life. This was a way of life characterised up until the 1980s by a well-defined status within local communities, professional expertise and a well-ordered tradition. The deregulation of banking and subsequent structural and technological changes to retail banking services eroded that professional tradition, and replaced it with new modes of work dominated by institutional priorities of sales, profit and growth, rather than by an ethic of professional expertise and customer service.
The thesis finds that there are structural barriers to the recovery of a professional ethic in banking. It offers new perspectives on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly in the application of his idea of traditions to mainstream economic activity. It also explores common ground between Gadamer and MacIntyre, proposing ways in which both philosophers can enhance our pursuit of qualitative empirical research
Introduction to Linear Bicategories
No full textthis paper were produced with the help of the drawing utility T E Xcad by G. Horn and the X Y-pic macros of K. Rose and R. Moore. Cockett, Koslowski, & Seely 2 3 Linear Adjunctions and closed linear bicategories 13 3.1 Linear adjunctions 14 3.2 Linear extensions and closed linear bicategories 15 3.3 The nucleus 20 3.4 Dualizing 1-cells 21 4 Cyclic linear adjoints and linear monads 22 4.1 Cyclic linear adjoints 22 4.2 -linear bicategories 24 4.3 Linear monads. 29 References 32 Appendix A Circuit diagrams 33 A.1 Circuit equivalences 35 0. Introductio
Letter re: stock option plan
No full textLetter from Malcom A. Macintyre, Debevoise Plimpton & McLean, to Amon Carter regarding American Airlines stock options and registration statement
Letter re: stock options
No full textLetter from Malcom A. Macintyre, Debevoise Plimpton & McLean, to Amon Carter regarding American Airlines stock options and registration statement
Service design and delivery
No full textService Design and Delivery provides a comprehensive overview of the increasingly important role played by the service industry. Focusing on the development of different processes employed by service organizations, the book emphasizes management of service in relation to products. It not only explores the complexity of this relationship, but also introduces strategies used in the design and management of service across various sectors, highlighting where tools, techniques and processes applicable to one sector may prove useful in another. The implementation methods introduced in the book also illustrate how and why companies can transform themselves into service organizations. While the book is primarily intended as a text for advanced-level courses in service design and delivery, it also contains theoretical and practical knowledge beneficial to both practitioners in the service sector and those in manufacturing contemplating moving towards service delivery.26 contributing author
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