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Moral Foundations (moral + foundation)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences40%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting40%

Selected Abstracts

Laying the Moral Foundations: Writer, Religion and Late Eighteenth-Century Society , The Case of J.M.R Lenz

GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 2 2001
J.M. Gibbons
Although Lenz himself calls Meinungen eines Laien, and by implication its complement Stimmen des Laien, ,der Grundstein meiner ganzen Poesie', until recently these moral-philosophical texts have attracted little critical attention and as yet no detailed analysis. An examination of the involved theological argument developed in the latter work seeks to demonstrate that they do indeed amount to a watershed in Lenz's career. It also opens up an intriguing perspective into the changing role of the writer in later eighteenth-century society. In engaging seriously in a number of debates critical to the ,Aufklärung', Lenz also distinguishes himself from the ,Sturm und Drang' movement with which he has traditionally been associated. By laying a ,Grundstein' of faith Lenz brings his notion of the individual's duty and purpose in society, his ,Bestimmung' as explored in earlier texts, to a firm conclusion. He also articulates his own sense of , to extend the term ,,Selbstbestim-mung', in which his own role as a writer undergoes a shift away from the spheres of philosophy, theology and literature towards more concrete social and political concerns. [source]

Opening the Black Box: Moral Foundations of Management Knowledge

BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 1 2006
2006 Organized by: Marie-Laure Djelic, Cergy Pontoise, ESSEC, October 1, Radu Vranceanu
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

11.,Toward Lasting Peace: Kant on Law, Public Reason, and Culture

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2009
Marc Lucht
Kant helps us understand the conditions for peace by reminding us that lasting peace requires both cosmopolitan legal reform and individual moral improvement, including resistance to egoism and the cultivation of cosmopolitan attitudes. The duty to pursue peace includes the duty to promote the rule of domestic and international law and work against its unilateral subversion. The juridical cosmopolitanism of a worldwide league of free peoples enables resistance to the dangers posed by authoritarian regimes and their dangerous willingness to manipulate their subjects and ignore international law. Constraining egoism enables people to overcome the tyranny of their desires and cultivates a sense of affiliation with the larger community of humanity in general, providing the moral foundation needed to support a cosmopolitan legal order. Moral development to a great extent is fostered through the arts and humanities, and a robust cultural life therefore ought to play a central role in the pursuit of global peace. [source]

Ethical Values of Transactional and Transformational Leaders

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, Issue 4 2001
Rabindra N. Kanungo
Ethical leadership literature (Bass & Steidlmeier, 1999; Kanungo & Mendonca, 1996) suggests that authentic transformational leadership must be based on some moral foundation. Such literature is not as clear, however, on whether transactional leadership can have moral foundation as well. The paper argues that transformational and transactional leadership behaviours are judged to be ethical based on two different sets of values, motives, and assumptions. These values, motives, and assumptions are grounded in two types of ethical perspective for understanding the behaviour of the two types of leaders. Transformational leaders have an organic worldview and moral altruistic motives grounded in a deontological perspective. Transactional leaders, on the other hand, have an atomistic worldview and mutual altruistic motives grounded in a teleological perspective. Résumé La littérature sur le leadership éthique (Bass & Steidlmeier, 1999; Kanungo & Mendonca, 1996) suggère que le leadership transformationnel authentique doit être basé sur des fondements moraux quelconques. Par con-tre, la littérature ne précise pas si le leadership trans-actionnel doit aussi avoir des fondements moraux. Cette étude démontre que les comportements de leadership transformationnels ainsi que transactionnels sont jugés comme étant basés sur deux différents groupes de valeurs, motifs et suppositions en ce qui attrait à l'éthique. Ces valeurs, motifs et suppositions sont fondés sur deux types de perspectives éthiques defaçon à com-prendre le comportement des deux types de leaders. Les leaders transformationnels out une perception orga-nique du monde ainsi que des motifs moraux altruistes basés sur une perspective déontologique. À l'opposé, les leaders transactionnels ont une perception atomiste du monde et des motifs mutuels basés sur une perspective téléologique. [source]

Subverting Orthodoxy, Making Law Central: A View of Sociolegal Studies

JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 4 2002
Roger Cotterrell
The promise of sociolegal research varies for different constituencies. For some legal scholars it has been a promise of sustained commitment to moral and political critique of law and to theoretical and empirical analysis of law's social consequences and origins. To continue to deliver on that promise today, sociolegal studies should develop theory in new forms emphasizing the variety of forms of regulation and the moral foundations on which that regulation ultimately depends. It should demonstrate and explore law's roles in the routine structuring of all aspects of social life and its changing character as it faces the challenge of regulating relations of community not bounded solely by the jurisdictional reach of nation states. [source]