Zsolnai Ethics, Meaning, and Market Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-79911-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 94 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Business and Management

This book explores the underlying causes of the pervasive dominance of ‘unethics’ in contemporary affairs in economics, business, ecology and society. It is argued that the state of unethics is related to the overexpansion of market and market values in all spheres of social life and human activities. A correlate of this development is the emergence of an extremely individualistic, materialistic and narcissistic mind-set that dictates the decisions and behavior of people and organizations.

The author argues that art can help us to overcome the dominant market metaphysics of our age, as genuine art creates models of "poetic dwelling," which can generate non-linear, progressive change that opens up a larger playing field for ethics. Aesthetics and ethics go hand in hand. Ethical action is not just right for its own sake, but makes the world a richer, liveable and more beautiful place.

Ethics, Meaning, and Market Society will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics, researchers, and professionals. It addresses the topics with regard to ethics and will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of ethics in economics, business, ecology and society in a contemporary context, as well as applied ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zsolnai, Laszlo

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Why Unethics?

1. Introduction: Market Overreach

Part 2: The Mechanism of Unethics

2. The Market and the Corruption of Activities

3. When the Invisible Hand Fails

4. Moral Disengagement

Part 3: Nature and Future Generations

5. Integral Ecology and Future Earth

6. Nurturing Place

7. The Fate of Future Generations

Part 4: Business and Economics

8. The Fallacy of Stakeholder Management

9. Economic Ethics and World Religions

10. Beyond Self

Part 5: The Richness of Life

11. Art Can Save the World

Über Autor(innen)

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He also serves as President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium.