Aesthetics as a Foundation for Business Activity
This paper identifies the ultimate justification for business activity as an aesthetic justification. Aesthetics, loosely defined as the appreciation of beauty, subsumes both ethics and economics within an holistic justificatory mechanism for business decisions., Five essential qualities of aestheti...
| Published in: | Journal of business ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2007
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 41-46 |
| Further subjects: | B
Beauty
B Ethics B Aesthetics B virtue corporate objective |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This paper identifies the ultimate justification for business activity as an aesthetic justification. Aesthetics, loosely defined as the appreciation of beauty, subsumes both ethics and economics within an holistic justificatory mechanism for business decisions., Five essential qualities of aesthetic judgment are identified: disinterest, subjectivity, inclusivity, contemplativity, and internality. The quality of aesthetic judgment, exercised by the individual through the organization, will determine the extent to which business activity enhances quality of life. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9154-x |