Rationality Meets Ren : beyond Virtue Catalogues for a World Business Ethos

摘要: The Confucian tradition, which places the virtue of ren or fellow feeling at its heart as a ‘gateway’ to more concrete virtues common Western parlance, offers potential antidote excesses business ethics which, even after recent academic reembrace Aristotelian in practice still too often instrumentalises service ‘rational’ ‘reasonable’ constraining profit motive. deeper, intrinsic ‘ethos’ promised by approach also finds echo West work Hans Kung’s Weltethos (World Ethos) project, led today on front Klaus Leisinger and Claus Dierksmeier. This paper explores dilemma World Ethos movement seen from twin peaks Ethics Institute Peking University Institut Tubingen: namely, whether culture accustomed thinking terms CSR-esque lists corporate values, principles can best be reformed via documents like UN Global Compact, 2010 Economic Ethic Manifesto, Sustainable Development Goals, radical, revolutionary quest for an inner ‘ethos’, lived experienced self-cultivating individuals engaged all over world regardless background, ought somehow undertaken parallel these endeavours. authors outline possible steps towards such transformation management community’s understanding virtue, without, however, dismissing contribution traditional, dilemma-oriented about applied general, particular.