An Exercise in Moral Philosophy: Seeking to Understand “nobody”
The late Hannah Arendt proposed that many, perhaps most monstrous deeds are not committed by moral monsters but by individuals who do not “think.” However, understanding the significance of “activity of thinking as such” requires a moral philosophy that transcends rational actor assumptions and inst...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1997
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Teaching business ethics
Year: 1997, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-91 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Morality B banality of evil B systems theory B Moral Philosophy B Evil B cognition and institutions B Self-knowledge B cognition and morality B information distortion |
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| Summary: | The late Hannah Arendt proposed that many, perhaps most monstrous deeds are not committed by moral monsters but by individuals who do not “think.” However, understanding the significance of “activity of thinking as such” requires a moral philosophy that transcends rational actor assumptions and instrumental reason centering, instead, on the conditions of self-knowledge. The ubiquitous and often lethal phenomenon of information distortions provides a vehicle for expanding our understandings of individual moral response-abilities in our modern times. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-1944 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Teaching business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1009787710014 |