Book description
This book evaluates strategies for managing ethical conflict. Macro-approaches that attribute select values to entire peoples and claim supremacy for these values are suspect. A micro-approach, focusing on the ethics of individual thinkers, is better. The study uses the ethics of Confucius and Tetsuro Watsuji to derive a process-based universal…
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1 author picked Local Insights, Global Ethics for Business as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the clarity and the bold historically informed orientation, and that the proposal on how to act for the common good takes ideas from different virtue ethics around the world (from Aristotle’s European to Asian ones in Confucius, Watzusian ethics in Japan, etc.).
They are so different from how current politics act with only power in mind. This book is sensitive to local insights and has strong realist basis for global ethics for business.
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