Pub Date : 2011-09-26DOI: 10.1163/9789042031579_008
Barry Spurr
In recent years there has been a flood of articles and books on the role of social capital or trust among economic actors. These works generally conclude that a high degree of trust and trustworthiness is an important key to achieve success in most, if not all, business endeavors. Social capital may be considered a stage in how the human contribution to wealth creation has been understood historically. At first human labor was simply conceived of as a commodity, as manpower. As appreciation for the many unique human characteristics grew, and knowledge about the influence of each of them on worker productivity became clearer, manpower evolved into some sort of branded good that behaved like capital, human capital. Subsequently we came to know of the different modalities of human capital, from intellectual capital to emotional capital, and from cultural capital to social capital. Although social capital as a trait can be attributed to both individuals and groups, it could best be studied perhaps as a feature of the personality of a leader. A problem that one immediately encounters, however, is that social capital is morally ambivalent in its uses and effects: that is, social capital could equally serve the purposes of a mafia clan as those of a philanthropic NGO. If business ethics is to be taken seriously, a way has to be devised in order to take stock of the ‘moral value’ generated by workers and firms. This moral value could then be related to the ends that employees and businesses jointly pursue, such as wealth-creation and the attainment of overall well-being. Several initiatives from both the public and the private sectors have arisen to capture this moral value: the elaboration of codes of conduct for professions and organizations; the provision of ethical training within firms; the institution of corporate ethics offices; the design of social, ethical and environmental standards and accounting systems; and the passing of enabling legislation such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or the US Federal Corporate Sentencing Guidelines and their counterparts in different countries the world over. At times, however, these measures are perceived to be superficial and cosmetic, as mere publicity gimmicks. The deeper intentions of those who put them into effect are not trusted. Furthermore, global civil society certainly demands compliance with its just laws, but aside from that it also requires a strong commitment to values and integrity from workers, managers and firms. This is especially the case when individual and corporate actions do not violate – strictly speaking – any law, but are still nevertheless morally censurable.
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Pub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.1163/EJ.9789004202405.I-666.45
G. Márkus
In view of the many voices of dissent and reinterpretation, this chapter presents a rather orthodox defence of Hegel: that what he meant by the thesis of the "end of art" is quite true, and discloses something of genuine importance about the situation of the arts in modern times. What is this vocation, the philosophical concept of art? Hegel discusses this question in the whole first part of the Lectures on Aesthetics. But he does so in a rather strange way: he does it twice. In the first part he offers a systematic "deduction" of the concept and essential characteristics of the work of art from the metaphysical idea of beauty. But before that, in the long Introduction, he presents a reverse train of thought. The incongruence between the two "deductions" offers the key to the Hegelian understanding of the end/vocation, the philosophical concept of art.Keywords: Hegel; Lectures on Aesthetics; modern art
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In this collection of testimonies Venezuelan community leaders share the history of popular movements in Venezuela that pre-date the Chavez administration. These testimonies also reveal the continuous compromises and challenges with the current administration defying the over-simplified representation of Venezuelan popular movements. The testimonies show a complicated Venezuelan reality that the mainstream media frequently overlooks with its exclusive focus on Chavez.
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Pub Date : 2007-01-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839406816-001
T. Forrest
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{"title":"Translations by C. Brian Morris Quevedo, Francisco de. Obras completas I. Poesia original. Ed. José Manuel Blecua. Barcelona: Planeta, 1963; In Memoriam Professor Guillermo E. Hernández (1940-2006) Professor Carroll B. Johnson (1938-2007)","authors":"C. B. Morris","doi":"10.5070/M3361014699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/M3361014699","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70754950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GIES, DAVID T, ed. The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 863 pp.","authors":"Jasmina Arsova","doi":"10.5070/M3341014631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/M3341014631","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70754966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
el más aséptico positivismo. La vena del simulacro en Baudrillard, la autorreferencialidad lingüística postulada por Derrida en sus especulaciones sobre la farmacia de Platón^ la destrucción del universo binario en Lyotard, cada uno se suma al expediente de la duda ante la fácil asunción de las potencialidades referenciales de cualquier discurso, y no es en ello excepcional, sino acaso paradigmático, el caso literario. Paul de Man, haciéndose cargo de esa perspectiva en el asunto de los estudios genéricos sobre autobiografía y memoria, y no sin un guiño frente al espejo borgeano, deslizó una pregunta que desborda ese espíritu subversivo y a la vez reconcentrado y hermético:
最无菌的实证主义。的静脉的演习,在Baudrillard, autorreferencialidad lingüística而Derrida在其推测药房柏拉图^破坏有关宇宙在Lyotard,每一个二进制文件使得容易假设潜力面前怀疑referenciales任何演讲,而不是在这特殊,而是模范,文学的案例。保罗·德·曼(Paul de Man)在自传和记忆的一般研究中采用了这种观点，并在博尔赫斯的镜子前不无手势地提出了一个问题，这个问题充满了颠覆性的精神，同时又重新集中和封闭:
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{"title":"Beach, Modernity, and Colonial Encounters in Santander and Castro Urdíales in Amos de Escalante and José María de Pereda, 1864-1877","authors":"Eugenia Afinoguénova","doi":"10.5070/M3321014592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/M3321014592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":"32 1","pages":"127-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70754855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deconstrução em A Festa de Ivan Ângelo, uma abordagem de acordo com a \"\"resposta do leitor\"","authors":"Sylvia C. Blynn-Avanosian","doi":"10.5070/M3241014442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/M3241014442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":"24 1","pages":"43-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70754638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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