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Virtues for the Anthropocene
2015
The paper discusses some difficulties that life in Anthropocene poses to our ethical thinking. It describes the sort of ethical task that individuals find themselves confronting when dealing with the planetary environmental quandaries that characterise the new epoch. It then asks what, given the situation, would count as environmentally virtuous ways of looking at and going about our lives, and how relevant virtues can be developed. It is argued that the practice of gardening is distinctively conducive to that objective. Finally, some garden virtues that will be of special importance in the Anthropocene, but have so far been largely neglected by environmental ethicists, are listed and descr…
Los fundamentos de la visualidad de la Templanza. Formación de su tipología iconográfica hasta el siglo XIV
2020
La Templanza, como una de las Virtudes Cardinales, ha sido objeto de reflexión por parte de los pensadores desde la Antigüedad, cuando se sentaron las bases de este concepto. A pesar de la ausencia de unos claros precedentes visuales, la Templanza configuró su visualidad en el medievo al igual que sus compañeras. Dicha ausencia motivó una gran variedad de concreciones icónicas de esta virtud mediante diferentes y numerosos atributos. Las famosas “iconologías” no recogen la mayoría de estos atributos y tipos iconográficos, al igual que la bibliografía. Por este motivo, proponemos un estudio diacrónico de la visualidad de la Templanza desde sus orígenes hasta el siglo XIV, atendiendo al signi…
Are Virtues Shaped by National Cultures or Religions?
2012
The present paper examines the relative influence of religion and nation on conceptions of virtues. In a first study, conducted in the Netherlands, 926 respondents of different profession, age, sex, and religious background rank ordered a list of 15 virtues. A comparison of Dutch Muslims and non-Muslims showed a remarkably high resemblance in their ratings of virtues. Only faith was rated as being much more important by Muslims than by non-Muslims. In the second study, the influence of national cultures was examined. Adults (N = 795) from two culturally relatively similar countries, Germany and the Netherlands, and from Spain rated the same list of virtues. Crossnational differences between…
LEGITIMATION OF VIRTUE EDUCATION IN TEACHER TRAINING DISCOURSE DURING SOVIET LATVIA
2019
Soviet virtue education had a relevant place in the discourse of the founders of communism and in the Communist Party’s documents. Virtue education played a central role in the construction of the future Soviet society and the raising of the New Soviet Man, a conscious communist, productive worker and soldier. This paper addresses two research questions: how was character and virtue education conceptualized, legitimized and implemented in Soviet Latvia? What elements of the Soviet approach to character education facilitated the consolidation of totalitarianism in Latvia?This research is based on written academic sources published in Soviet Latvia about virtue education and intended to schoo…
LA PEDAGOGIA IMPLICITA IN SAN JOSEMARÍA ESCRIVÁ DE BALAGUER
2015
Escrivá non è stato un pedagogista ma un formatore, non ha scritto un trattato di Pedagogia ma durante la sua vita (1902-1975) ha formato centinaia di migliaia di persone di tutte le età e condizioni. Dagli scritti e dalle opere di san Josemaría Escrivá, fondatore dell’Opus Dei (una istituzione gerarchica della Chiesa cattolica, che si propone di diffondere una profonda presa di coscienza della chiamata universale alla santità e del valore santificante del lavoro ordinario), è possibile ricavare alcuni canoni ispiratori dell’azione educativa e formativa, una vera e propria “pedagogia implicita”. L’antropologia di riferimento di Escrivá si radica nella considerazione che ogni uomo è figlio d…
PRUDENTE GOBIERNO: LA PRUDENCIA EN EL GOBERNANTE
2019
Partiendo de las fuentes filosoficas y literarias, la Prudencia es considerada la principal virtud que debe poseer todo gobernante. Esta relacion propicio la interaccion visual entre la figura del gobernante y la imagen de la Prudencia. De este modo, en ocasiones, la Prudencia, adquiere atributos propios del gobernante, asi como este adquiere los de la Prudencia, retratandose incluso como esta virtud.
Dignity, Rights and Virtues in the Department of Values
2018
The chapter aims to show that dignity is not an empty concept but it adds something to other values and this is reflected in Dworkin holistic approach to values. Last Dworkin's project is to transcend the language of rights to a new political perspective in which responsibility and virtues are crucial. But this is problematic for Dworkin's engagement to liberalism.
Ethical culture and moral identity: how they interact and influence unethical behavior in organizations
2021
La ética es un pilar fundamental en el funcionamiento de cualquier organización. Sin embargo, hemos tenido conocimiento de prácticas poco éticas en diferentes empresas alrededor del mundo, y esto ha sacudido nuestra confianza en las empresas y los que las dirigen. Por ejemplo, el Índice de Percepción de la Corrupción 2019 presentado por Transparencia Internacional cada año revela que casi el 70% de los países evaluados obtuvieron calificaciones por debajo de 50, con una calificación promedio de 43 en una escala de cero a 100, donde cero significa alto nivel de corrupción (Transparencia Internacional, 2020). Además, ese comportamiento poco ético tiene costes para las propias empresas. Así, p…
Ethical Culture and Management
2022
An unfortunate marker of the current times is the scale of unethical behavior and corporate corruption committed by business leaders. A powerful antecedent of unethical behavior is organizational culture. This chapter discusses what constitutes and drives an ethical culture. It defines the concept of ethical culture and reviews different approaches that have been used to measure ethical culture in organizations. The Corporate Ethical Virtues model is reviewed in more detail as one example of a reliable and valid way to operationalize ethical organizational cultures. Finally, specific management strategies to maintain and minimize potential threats to an ethical culture are also provided. pe…