Ethical Vision Research Articles

Public policy, resource rent and ethics: The case of the Norwegian petroleum industry

The present paper seeks to explain how ethics and values in public policy can be result of different historical contingencies. Specifically, it explains the accomplishment of petroleum resource management in Norway. The main argument is that the success of this policy is an understanding of the ethics behind harvesting the resource rent of this non-renewable natural resource. To support the argument, the paper firstly describes a model of Recardian resource rent. Secondly, it investigates the set of values that were in place before the petroleum production started in the 1970s, as described in the influential white paper, “The role of petroleum activities in the Norwegian Society,” published in 1974. In the white paper, the government discussed the future opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities associated with the oil industry and how this would transform society. An important part of the white paper revealed the main ethical vision of the government, i.e., to build a “qualitatively better society” for the benefit of the people. Thirdly, the paper traces the historical roots of these values.

Seamus Heaney’s ‘Ethical Vision’ from Death of A Naturalist to Human Chain

This paper aims to prove that Heaney shows his ‘ethical vision’ through all his poems, which is exceptional among the modern poets. What I mean by ‘ethical vision’ is the love and responsibility for his root—his own parents, land, and belief —as well as his love and responsibility for others. His poems can be classified into three steps according to what Heaney searches for: Celtic and Gaelic tradition, Glocal one and ‘uisneach,’ Irish spiritual center. The reason that we can apply the word ‘ethical’ to the early poems is that his early poems express his responsibility and love for his root such as parents, folk tradition, his own land and people. Further, his middle poems also show that he tries to maintain the balance in his view of the world, which can be called ethical, because keeping balance accompanies acceptance of others and criticism of himself. Besides, his search for ‘uisneach’ as Irish spiritual and aesthetic center in his later poems reflects another ethical vision because ‘uisneach’ means Irish spirit featured with reconciliation and beauty.

“Freak Show” and Resistance as Ethical Sensitivity: Milne’s “Declined with Thanks”

This study aims to demonstrate how I use in college level literature classes discussion and writing built around focused questions and thought-provoking questions in order to promote ethical sensitivity toward resistance against corruption, abuses of power, and Mammonism in society. Among several literary texts that I use for this purpose, this paper focuses on Alan Alexander Milne’s “Declined with Thanks” in his essay collection Not That It Matters (1920). As for the significance of individuals’ decisions to refuse money or job opportunities that are presented for any improper motives or purposes, Milne’s essay explores the possibility of emanating from these individual decisions a social movement that resists the collusion between political power, economic power, and the media. In helping my students to understand Milne’s seemingly impossible ethical vision, I emphasize critical thinking within the social and cultural contexts. Through this study on cases of teaching Milne’s essay on resistance as ethical sensitivity, I attempt to contribute to prove the value and necessity of literature, and more broadly, humanities in our society.

“Freak Show” and Resistance as Ethical Sensitivity: Milne’s “Declined with Thanks”

This study aims to demonstrate how I use in college level literature classes discussion and writing built around focused questions and thought-provoking questions in order to promote ethical sensitivity toward resistance against corruption, abuses of power, and Mammonism in society. Among several literary texts that I use for this purpose, this paper focuses on Alan Alexander Milne’s “Declined with Thanks” in his essay collection Not That It Matters (1920). As for the significance of individuals’ decisions to refuse money or job opportunities that are presented for any improper motives or purposes, Milne’s essay explores the possibility of emanating from these individual decisions a social movement that resists the collusion between political power, economic power, and the media. In helping my students to understand Milne’s seemingly impossible ethical vision, I emphasize critical thinking within the social and cultural contexts. Through this study on cases of teaching Milne’s essay on resistance as ethical sensitivity, I attempt to contribute to prove the value and necessity of literature, and more broadly, humanities in our society.

Necessary Principles Around Marketing Deconstruction

Traditionally, the concept of marketing is used as a synonym for irresponsible marketing. It is synonymous with actions that, without an ethical vision, focus on increasing sales through a series of strategies. It is common to link marketing to ideas such as "manipulation" or to advertising efforts that denigrate people with the aim of increasing sales or positioning brands. This article is an interdisciplinary effort that aims to deconstruct the traditional and dominant ideas surrounding marketing. To carry out this analysis, two proposals are put forward. First, the approach to consumer systems by making a historical review of the contribution that some disciplines, such as economics and psychology, have made. Second, the concept of assemblages as a means of analyzing the relationships that these systems currently possess, and the possible emerging relationships. An example is given of the impact of advertising and other marketing efforts with sexist content and how this Impact is related to different systems, from creative design to the social context in which this type of content is framed; which not only enables its construction, but also contributes to an irresponsible marketing notion, helping to reproduce and naturalize this model. Realidad Empresarial No. 10, 2020: 52-64

Iris Murdoch and the Chime of More than One Bell: Ethical Imagination and Attention to Voices

L’article propose une lecture du roman de Murdoch, The Bell (1958), mettant en lumière des proximités entre le sort de Dora Greenfield et deux héroïnes emblématiques du roman de xixe siècle, Dorothea Brooke dans Middlemarch, Isabel Archer dans The Portrait of a Lady. Les trois romans, malgré des différences, sont lisibles comme des fictions centrées sur des enjeux d’envoûtement et de soumission. Des questions de voix narrative, la différence entre les procédures éthiques et épistémologiques du récit à la 1re personne et la narration romanesque extradiégétique sont abordées, dans l’œuvre de Murdoch et quelques exemples de la fiction du xxie siècle. L’article pointe une affinité entre le déploiement de l’imagination éthique et l’art de la fiction. L’émancipation d’une héroïne envoûtée est relevée comme un motif distinctif du roman.

What is the Meaning of Immanuel Kant’s Notion of the Human Being as the Ultimate End of Nature?

The article explores Kant’s notion of the human being as the ultimate end of nature, presenting an ethical interpretation of this notion. The author of this article believes that the analysis of Kant’s assumptions will allow a deeper understanding of our own hermeneutical situation, in which ecological problems force us to rethink our relationship with nature and the meaning of human existence. Analyzing Kant’s early texts on Lisbon earthquake and his reflection on the sublime in the Critique of Judgement, the author asks how the experience of an uncontrolled natural element complements Kant’s ethical vision of nature’s teleology. Emphasizing the importance of insight into human vulnerability for the implementation of moral purpose in nature, the article outlines guidelines for interpretation that allow the relevance of Kant’s position in the context of contemporary environmental ethics.

Essential Moral Sources of Ethical Standards in Child and Youth Care Work

It is proposed that an ethical framework for child and youth care practice should take into account the differences between descriptive ethical inquiry on the one hand and normative and analytical ethical inquiry on the other. This will help us avoid the error of deriving our ethical principles from our practices, when in fact what we need is a moral criterion originating outside our practice that is not based on efficiency. Mattingly (1995) suggests this in recommending that we “Develop an ethical vision.” This ethical vision should take into account the domains of morality proposed by Taylor (1989), including respect for human life, issues of what makes a rich, meaningful life, and ideas about dignity. Doing so may provide a moral foundation not just for a code of ethics, but a moral framework for evaluating the entire range of our practice with children and youth.

Recovering human inheritance in organisations and society: an exploration of David Armstrong’s “ethical imagination”

This article examines closely, explores, and expands upon David Armstrong’s idea of the ethical imagination in psychodynamically-informed consultation and systems thinking. In his article, published in Organisational & Social Dynamics in 2017, Armstrong sought to recover, and to renew attention towards, the early emphasis of the field on the restoration of human agency in institutional settings. Armstrong challenged the field to broaden its perspective on the dilemmas it seeks to tackle and to “rediscover and re-own the active voice” so as to help people, institutions, and society at large develop more humanely and productively. Using a case study and reference to theoretical work, this article further characterises the experience and role of imagination in organisational consultation, and explores and advances the “ethical” dimensions of Armstrong’s concept. The article concludes by arguing that in the context of the current crises that threaten humanity (e.g. climate change, dehumanising technological innovation), the field of systems psychodynamics needs to devise novel theories, techniques, and, as Armstrong urges, “new forms of group and organisational life”, that recover and revitalise foundational aspects of what makes us human: the capacity to think, the capacity to feel, and the capacity to integrate.

Αναζητώντας τα Χαρακτηριστικά του Ηθικού Ηγέτη: Μια εμπειρική μελέτη στον χώρο εργασίας

Theories of ethical leadership differentiate on the number and type of characteristics they adopt. Τhe purpose of the present study was to review all different theoretical approaches that have been presented so far in the literature, to record the different characteristics that have been proposed , and to study empirically the importance of these characteristics. In total, twenty-seven different dimensions of ethical leadership were identified in the international bibliography. A quantitative study was carried out and forty-one employees and employers in organizations in the public and private sectors in Greece evaluated the significance of the twenty seven dimensions. The results showed that all dimensions were appraised as important by all participants. However, more emphasis was placed on the dimensions “Trust” and “Collaboration” and less on “Green Practices” and “Development of Ethical Vision”. The Intra-Class Correlation between employers and employees was noteworthy (ICC = 0.91). However, statistically significant moderate differences between the evaluationsof employers and employees emerged only on the dimensions of “Integrity” and “Ethical responsibility”, with employers showing higher scores. These results indicate that all twenty seven dimensions are relevant and important for the definition of the concept of ethical leadership.

Introducción Espacios de la ética y la identidad en el quehacer del diseño

Esta edición de Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación se inscribe dentro de la línea Investigar en Diseño. Precisamente, en este número se reúnen aportaciones académicas que establecen correlaciones epistemológicas en el amplio entramado de la ética, la identidad y el diseño, revisando convergencias y divergencias de las acciones de los diseñadores en el marco de un quehacer que busca establecer parámetros de conducta profesional. Los trabajos que conforman el presente volumen se han agrupado en tres ejes. Por un lado, las visiones éticas que reflexionan acerca de la práctica del diseño como ejercicio profesional en su articulación con pueblos indígenas y también con respecto a sus transformaciones históricas. Por el otro, las reflexiones teóricas acerca de la ética en el diseño, tanto en clave del ethos del diseñado, cuanto en relación con los desafíos que propone la posmodernidad y el mercado a dicho ethos. Por último, las disquisiciones en torno a la responsabilidad social y ética del diseño, proponen un análisis a los desafíos que conlleva éticamente la formación de nuevas generaciones de diseñadores en el ámbito universitario de grado y posgrado.

The summit of a moral pilgrimage: Confucianism on healthy ageing and social eldercare.

To effectively address ageing and develop adequate eldercare needs, among others, new ethical visions are much needed. One of the ways to formulate sound ethical visions for contemporary issues is to reclaim, reinterpret and revive old moral ideas and ideals rooted in different indigenous cultural traditions. Drawing thought, wisdom and inspirations from classical Confucianism, the article offers a Confucian ethical outlook on healthy ageing and social eldercare. The popular perception of ageing in the West as well as China regards old age as a period of inevitable decline. However, Kong Zi (Confucius) treats human life as an ongoing moral pilgrimage, with old age the summit of the lifelong journey. This Confucian ethical view on ageing as the culmination of a lifelong moral cultivation has various important themes. They include the primary feature of learning in healthy ageing, the essential role of social eldercare embedded in the popular Confucian norm ‘filial piety’ (xiao), intergenerational flourishing and the necessity to respect the rights and dignity of each old person. Such a Confucian socio-ethical vision can not only help identify contemporary failings in the area of eldercare but also generate novel ideas and frameworks to help China and the world to face population ageing and elderly care in a more positive way.

\u201cWe Ought to Eat in Order to Work, Not Vice Versa\u201d: MacIntyre, Practices, and the Best Work for Humankind

This paper draws a distinction between ‘right MacIntyreans’ who are relatively optimistic that MacIntyre’s vision of ethics can be realised in capitalist society, and ‘left MacIntyreans’ who are sceptical about this possibility, and aims to show that the ‘left MacIntyrean’ position is a promising perspective available to business ethicists. It does so by arguing for a distinction between ‘community-focused’ practices and ‘excellence-focused’ practices. The latter concept fulfils the promise of practices to provide us with an understanding of the best work for humankind and highlights the affinities between MacIntyre’s concept of a practice and Marx’s conception of good work as free, creative activity. The paper concludes with a suggestion that we reflect on the best forms of work so that we can strive to ensure the very best activities, those most consonant with our flourishing, one day become available to all.

Corporate citizenship, stakeholder management and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in financial institutions and capital markets

PurposeThe aim of this theoretical and conceptual research paper is to give a definition of the concept of corporate citizenship, which together with business ethics and stakeholder management function as foundation of a vision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for financial institutions and capital markets.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on a conceptual methodology which analyzes the main aspects of corporate citizenship with regard stakeholder management and the UN SDGs. In particular there is focus on stakeholder justice, integrity and fairness with regard to stakeholder responsibility at capital markets.FindingsThis paper suggests that concepts of corporate citizenship, business ethics, stakeholder justice, integrity and fairness, as well as stakeholder responsibility must be conceived as the basis for an acceptable vision of sustainable development at capital markets.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is a theoretical paper so the paper is limited to the presentation of major concepts from the point of view of business ethics, stakeholder management and SDGs. This is a framework that needs to be developed in specific research and investment practice at capital markets.Practical implicationsThis paper provides the basis for developing a good vision of SDGs in financial institutions and capital markets and it demonstrates that the SDGs must be developed as the foundation of ethics of investments and capital markets.Social implicationsWith suggestions of visions of corporate citizenship, business ethics and stakeholder management this paper situates the firm in a social context as a social actor in the context of sustainable development. The business firm is therefore integrated in society and there is a close connection between business and society which needs to be developed in codes and values of ethics of financial institutions capital markets.Originality/valueThe originality and value of this paper is a conceptual formulation of the relation between the concepts of corporate citizenship, business ethics, stakeholder management and SDGs in financial markets. With this the paper refers to earlier research and summarizes concepts from this in a short synthesis.

« Répondre à la vulnérabilité » : l’éthique et les CHSLD au temps de la COVID-19

L’irruption de la COVID-19 au Québec témoigne de l’échec des résidences pour personnes âgées à protéger adéquatement ces dernières. Est clairement apparue la longue insouciance de toute une société à l’égard des personnes âgées fragiles. Le texte se divise en deux parties. La première partie montre qu’autant l’hôpital québécois, sous la direction du ministère de la Santé, était prêt à faire face à la pandémie, autant les centres de longue durée pour personnes en perte d’autonomie ne l’étaient pas. La deuxième partie discute du type d’éthique qui a guidé les responsables dans leurs décisions. Ce type d’éthique ne me semble pas correspondre à la vision éthique qui serait appropriée dans les soins de longue durée. L’éthique devrait en être une qui correspond à la nature de ces centres, elle devrait être une réponse à la vulnérabilité. La conclusion invite au dialogue citoyen pour parvenir à une réponse appropriée à la situation de ces personnes.

Notes on Contributors

Previous articleNext article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSimon Blessenohl is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Southern California. His current research focuses on issues related to risk and uncertainty in political decision-making. [email protected]Sophie Grace Chappell is professor of philosophy at the Open University, UK, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2017–20, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, St Andrews, 2017–20, and Erskine Research Fellow, University of Canterbury, NZ, Spring 2020. She has published over a hundred articles on ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, ancient philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Her most recent book is Knowing What to Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics (2014). Her main current research is about epiphanies, immediate and revelatory encounters with value, and their place in our experience and our philosophical ethics. She is the United Kingdom’s first openly transgender philosophy academic, having transitioned in 2014, and campaigns actively on feminist and transgender issues. [email protected]Brian Hedden is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. He specializes in epistemology and decision, with additional interests in ethics and philosophy of law. He is the author of Reasons without Persons: Rationality, Identity, and Time (2015), where he defends a time-slice-centric conception of rationality. [email protected]Joe Horton is a lecturer (assistant professor) in philosophy at University College London. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Southern California in 2018. His recent work focuses on questions about interpersonal aggregation and suboptimal [email protected]Jan Kandiyali is a fellow in political theory at the London School of Economics. He was formerly a lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Science at Istanbul Technical University. He completed his PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Jan works in social and political philosophy. He is especially interested in Marx’s social and political philosophy, the feasibility and desirability of socialism, perfectionism as a moral and political theory, and various questions relating to work and the division of labor. [email protected] Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 130, Number 4July 2020 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/708532 Views: 616Total views on this site © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Nietzsche: de la decadencia en el trabajo a la ascendencia en el capitalismo

Objetivo: evidenciar elementos para defender la idea de que el trabajo en el contexto capitalista es, desde Nietzsche, decadente, pero que, a pesar de ser decadente, es posible la vida ascendente en él. Para ello, este artículo explica qué entendía Nietzsche por decadencia, cuál fue la causa de esta decadencia, algunas de sus consecuencias y, en especial, por qué el trabajo en el contexto capitalista es una consecuencia más de la decadencia de la cultura. También explica cómo, a pesar de estar inmersos en un contexto decadente, es posible la vida ascendente. Para esto, se analiza el papel del dueño de empresa y de los empleados de ella. Metodología: este estudio procede metodológicamente mediante el análisis filosófico de conceptos. Así, se aplica el método genealógico de Nietzsche, con el que se enfrenta la visión restrictiva de la ética, según la cual pareciera como si ésta partiese de supuestos previos, absolutos, no demostrables y dogmáticos. El pensamiento de Nietzsche, entonces, constituye no sólo un referente teórico, sino también metodológico para abordar este tema. Resultados: la filosofía de Nietzsche tiene implicaciones sobre el capitalismo y la vida empresarial contemporánea. Conclusiones: la vida ascendente dentro del contexto capitalista es muy difícil de alcanzar y solo la logran unos pocos seres excepcionales, que tienden al Übermensch.

Dealing with ethical issues in rehabilitation medicine: The relationship between managerial support and emotional exhaustion is mediated by moral distress and enhanced by positive affectivity and resilience.

To analyse whether managerial support and ethical vision of patient care would be related to emotional exhaustion directly or through moral distress and whether these relationships would be conditional on individual levels of positive affectivity and resilience. Although some studies described the effects of ethical climate, moral distress, resilience and positive affectivity on emotional exhaustion, there are no attempts of explicative models containing these variables. A total of 222 Italian professionals employed in neuro-rehabilitation medicine units participated in this cross-sectional study. Descriptive statistics, mediation and moderated mediation analyses were conducted using SPSS. Managerial support and ethical vision of patient care were negatively related to emotional exhaustion, directly and through moral distress. Professionals high in resilience and positive affectivity benefited more from the protective effect of managerial support on emotional exhaustion through moral distress. Ethical climate represents a protective factor against moral distress and emotional exhaustion. Moreover, individual levels of positive affectivity and resilience may increase the beneficial effects deriving from managerial support in dealing with ethical issues. Health organisations may consider developing strategies to improve ethical climate, enhance managers' ability to support team in dealing with ethical issues and foster employees' positive affectivity and resilience.

Advancing animal welfare and ethics in veterinary practice through a national pet wellbeing task force, practice-based champions and clinical audit

BackgroundVeterinary animal welfare advocacy can be undertaken at individual, community, national and international levels. The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), a veterinary charity with 48 Pet Hospitals UK-wide, created...

Abuso sexual, de conciencia y de poder: hacia una nueva definición

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo mostrar la evolución que ha tenido la definición de abuso sexual. Esta va desde una visión restringida e individual, centrada en la transgresión estrictamente genital, ejercida con fuerza, malinterpretando el fenómeno del abuso de poder en situaciones de vulnerabilidad, facilitando, así, el encubrimiento, la negación institucional y la retraumatización de las víctimas. La evolución va hacia una visión más integral, estructural y ética, que permita a la sociedad, personas e instituciones asumir su verdadera responsabilidad en el reconocimiento y la justicia con las víctimas. Esta es la única manera en que la sociedad y las organizaciones pueden cambiar de una cultura de abuso y encubrimiento a una cultura de atención y confianza lúcida.