By Heiko Spitzeck
ISBN-10: 0511719299
ISBN-13: 9780511719295
ISBN-10: 0521727626
ISBN-13: 9780521727624
ISBN-10: 0521898935
ISBN-13: 9780521898935
What's the objective of our financial system? What might a extra life-serving economic system seem like? there are lots of books approximately enterprise and society, but only a few of them query the primacy of GDP progress, revenue maximization and person software maximization. Even advancements with a humanistic contact like stakeholder participation, company social accountability or company philanthropy serve a similar objective: to foster long term development and profitability. Humanism in enterprise questions those assumptions and investigates the opportunity of making a human-centered, value-oriented society in line with humanistic ideas. a world staff of lecturers and practitioners current philosophical, religious, financial, mental and organizational arguments that convey how humanism can be utilized to appreciate, and probably remodel, company at 3 diverse degrees: the platforms point, the organizational point and the person point. This groundbreaking booklet might be of curiosity to teachers, practitioners and policymakers all in favour of enterprise ethics and the connection among enterprise and society.
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Utilitarian agents maximize the same value function. They can coordinate their actions interpersonally, but they cannot cooperate. Cooperation is the answer to diverging subjective values that would lead to suboptimal results if everybody optimized his or her values individualistically. 11 Present-day economics is based on rational decision and game theory. The utility theorem of von Neumann and Morgenstern12 can be taken as the theoretical core of modern economics. This theorem transforms preference relations that are coherent into two interrelated functions, the utility function and the probability function.
Truthfulness, confidence, and reliability are important and central but not exhausting norms of ethical humanism. Theoretical humanism is an anthropological assumption that might be called “metaphysical” because a good deal of what we know about human beings rests on these assumptions. These assumptions seem to have an a priori necessary status regarding this knowledge; ethical humanism embraces a certain type of ethical norms. These norms rest on the assumption of human nature being reasonable and the idea of refinement and self-refinement (Bildung).
If any coherent practice can be so described and if a practice governed by humanistic principles is a specific form of coherent practice then humanistically motivated and governed behavior is rational in the decision-theoretic sense and meets the criteria of present-day economic rationality. This result will probably seem strange to many readers. They are accustomed to the opposition between humanistic and economic values, between deontological traits of morality and consequentialist rationality in the economic sphere.
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