Human Development and the Pursuit of the Common Good: Social Psychology or Aristotelian Virtue Ethics?
Journal of Business Ethics 100 (S1):89-98 (2011)
| Abstract | The encyclical proclaims the centrality of human development, which includes acting with gratuitousness and solidarity in pursuing the common good. This paper considers first whether such relationships of gratuitousness and solidarity can be analysed through the prism of traditional theories of social psychology, which are highly influential in current management research, and concludes that certain aspects of those theories may offer useful tools for analysis at the practical level. This is contrasted with the analysis of such relationships through Aristotelian virtue ethics (in particular as interpreted by MacIntyre 1985 , 1998 , 1999 ), which is emerging as a strong force in the field of business ethics, and which has strong conceptual similarities with the ideas put forward by Benedict XVI. Aristotelian virtue ethics offers a better fit with the aims of the encyclical at the theoretical level but it presents a number of challenges at the practical level, which the paper suggests may be addressed through the integration in its analysis of human action of models derived from social psychology | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,705 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesDaryl Koehn (1998). Virtue Ethics, the Firm, and Moral Psychology. Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (3):497-513.
Domènec Melé (2009). Integrating Personalism Into Virtue-Based Business Ethics: The Personalist and the Common Good Principles. Journal of Business Ethics 88 (1):227 - 244.
Candace Vogler (2006). Modern Moral Philosophy Again: Isolating the Promulgation Problem. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106 (3):345–362.
Christian Miller (2003). Social Psychology and Virtue Ethics. Journal of Ethics 7 (4):365-392.
Roger Crisp (forthcoming). A Third Method of Ethics? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Robert Hull (2005). All About EVE: A Report on Environmental Virtue Ethics Today. Ethics and the Environment 10 (1):89-110.
Antonino Vaccaro & Alejo José G. Sison (2011). Transparency in Business: The Perspective of Catholic Social Teaching and the “Caritas in Veritate”. Journal of Business Ethics 100 (S1):17-27.
Rosalind Hursthouse (1999/2001). On Virtue Ethics. Oxford University Press.
David Hollenbach (2002). The Common Good and Christian Ethics. Cambridge University Press.
Surendra Arjoon (2008). Reconciling Situational Social Psychology with Virtue Ethics. International Journal of Management Reviews 10 (3):221-243.
Michael A. Slote (1992). From Morality to Virtue. Oxford University Press.
Alejo José G. Sison & Joan Fontrodona (2012). The Common Good of the Firm in the Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition. Business Ethics Quarterly 22 (2):211-246.
Deborah S. Mower (2013). Situationism and Confucian Virtue Ethics. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (1):113-137.
Christian Miller (2012). The Challenge to Virtue, Character, and Forgiveness From Psychology and Philosophy. Philosophia Christi 14:125-143.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2012-01-07Total downloads8 ( #123,218 of 549,198 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,397 of 549,198 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
