david m. boje, ph.d. new mexico state university 7 december 2011
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David M. Boje, Ph.D.
New Mexico State University
7 December 2011
1. Rules you never break? (Immanuel Kant) 2. Instrumental - any means to an end;
greatest good for greatest number (John Stuart Mills)
3. Virtue – Habits fine and excellent; not excess or deficient? (Aristotle)
4. Answerability – one person in moment of being who acts to intervene (Mikhail Bakhtin)
5. Principle Based Ethics (Bill Daniels) – draws on 1, 3 & 4, not on 2
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RULE-BASED ETHICS
e.g. Categorical Imperative to make your individual maxim a universal (i.e. Golden rule)
ANSWERABILITY ETHICS e.g. We have answerability to bring about change in our complicit systemicity producing unethics
LIVING STORYTELLING PRINCIPE-BASED Ethics e.g. Living one’s life as virtuous story to have compelling acts or deeds
VIRTUE ETHICS e.g. Living one’s life as virtuous story to have compelling acts or deeds
This figure (1) is adapted from Boje (ed) 2008b Critical Theory Ethics For Business and Public Administration (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press).
INSTRUMENTALAL e.g ends justify means, good of the majority, situational or empirical way of looking at the world
This one Bill Daniels id not do:
Book I The Highest Good: HappinessBook II Virtues of Character Book III The Preconditions of VirtueBook IV Generosity Book V Justice Book VI Virtues of ThoughtBook VII Conditions Connected with Virtue & ViceBook VIII The Varieties of FriendshipBook IX Disputes between Friends and Dissimilar AimsBook X Pleasure (& the theory of process & locomotion)
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