Enlighted Intellectuals, from Michael Oakeshott to Thomas Sowell
English philosopher Michael Oakeshott was born and died in 20th century Europe, thus being an eyewitness to the rebirth of great authoritarian states and the countless wars and civil clashes that they created or sponsored. His social environment and the conditions imposed by his time shaped Oakeshott’s investigation, which dealt with topics related to liberal […]
Returning to Aristotle
In this article, I invite the reader to return to Aristotle’s basic concepts. The discussion of soul, happiness, virtues, and politics will be presented. The main goal here is to explain them briefly, to facilitate the reader’s understanding. The following discussion was based on the book “History of Philosophy” by Reale and Antiseri (2003). For […]
Survey Experiment and its relationship with ethics
This article is a continuation of the publication entitled: “Survey Experiment: a promising methodological approach”. The initial idea of the first article was to provide an overview so that we could understand what this approach is about, and then, in this article, present the use of methodology and its relationship with ethics. To stipulate a […]
Entrepreneurship: The Blind Men and the Elephant
In this series of 3 chapters, we will present entrepreneurship through its three main Schools: Economic, Behavioral, and Managerial. The parable ‘The blind men and the elephant’1 is used throughout the chapters – we adapted some parts for the didactic purpose. In a city in India, there were six wise men, all blind. Because they […]
Ethics and Technology – Part 1
There is a common sense of what technology is, and although it is not wrong in its entirety, it does not reflect the depth and complexity that encompass its definitions – which by the way are far from reaching consensus. The first associations with technology refer to “last generation” devices, cars and modern buildings, among […]
Phenomenology and ethics within organizations
It is increasingly perceived the relevance of active subjects, problem solvers, especially when talking about ethical issues within organizations. A person, in order to act ethically and give answers to ethical problems, needs to highlight the reality at every moment. In Husserl’s phenomenology, the process of arriving at the reality’s evidence involves making epochs, that […]
Survey Experiment: a promising methodological approach
The survey experiment is a very promising methodological approach in scientific research. In this article, which will probably be divided into two parts, I want to summarize in a very objective way what this methodological approach is and why it is so important in the field of experiments. In a second step, I intend to […]
News of speculation about what the organization is and should be, administratively speaking
Faced with the greater intention of explaining what management is, me and my study partner, Professor Paulo Grave, have been led, due to a purposeful and imperative discursive circularity in the construction of an answer-argument, to the elaboration of a speech about a certain complex object – the organization – that corresponds to the convenience […]
The Queen’s Gambit and anti-drug policies
The word “gambetto” has been used in Italian dictionaries since the 13th century, as a synonym for “tripping up someone”. When migrating to English, it became “gambit” and had the meaning extended to “trickery to beat the opponent”. Its most popular use occurs in the expression “queen’s gambit”, which designates a chess move in which, […]
Virtues and utilitarianism: an impossible dialogue?
At first sight, utilitarianism and virtue ethics are absolutely incompatible currents of thought: utilitarianism calls for a principle of maximization, to an instrumental calculation of consequences as a criterion for the classification of moral acts, while virtue ethics requires careful analysis of the situation and the context in which the agent finds himself to determine […]