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Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...
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Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...
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's System of Profound Knowledge about ethics and sustainability and argues that they are related to the philosophy of pragmatism …
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This study deals with responsibility as part of innovation. By nature, innovation gives birth to development for the organization and can only be at the core of any strategy within an ever-increasingly global economic context. However it also raises new questions stemming mostly from the...
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This paper challenges two previous articles published in EJHET concerning Hegel's outlook upon the economic sphere in his Philosophy of Right. These contributions interpret Hegel as the promoter of a fragile mix of economic liberalism and "political communitarianism" (Greer 1999) or...
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commentaries on the Ethics avoids any consideration of individual behaviour. However, this last comes to the forefront when the …
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The present study addresses the question of uncertainty in individual deliberation in Rousseau's philosophy. Accordingly, it intends to consider in a new light his account of virtue and citizenship which cannot possibly be defined as systematic obedience to the general will. Weakness of the...
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Public expertise in safety, security and environment is a process that is increasingly submitted to control and transparency. It therefore requires an oversight, a monitoring and an aiding approach on its conduct and its governance. Difficulties learned from experiences in framing risk problems...
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societal levels. This is why ethics as applied to business can play a central role in its establishment. This paper examines … the practices and issues of ethics in lobbying consulting. The chosen field in this exploratory study is France. The case … Quebec institutions. The results of this research are developed along two lines: 1. The practice of lobbying ethics differs …
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. But the model doesn't give a clear definition of ethics, suggesting that all ethical decisions can be evaluate on a scale …
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