Disaster ethics and the touching case of Thai boys trapped in a cave
Crisis, tragedies and disasters have very particular characteristics of uncertainty and require different relationships and responsibilities for their response and solution, with extremely difficult decision making. The philosopher Naomi Zack (2009) – one of the main references on disaster ethics – clarifies that there are aspects of these events that go beyond the obvious facts, […]
Courage pill for relationships based on virtue ethics
Human relations are predominantly centered on hedonism especially on contemporary days. People usually join a relation in first-place to satisfy their own pleasures and well-being. This is was exposed by Zygmunt Bauman in his book “Liquid Love,”. The author sustains that contemporary relationships cease to be a construction of an “we” and become a cult […]
Research report – Everton Silveira de Souza
A possibility of alignment between ethics and finance
Enron Corporation was a world leader in power distribution. Located in Houston, Texas, it employed about 21,000 people. In the year of 2000, before filing for bankruptcy due to accounting fraud, Enron earned $ 101 billion. This is not the first and will not be the last case in which companies are involved in some […]
Business Ethics and the Brazilian Reality
Business ethics has been gaining strength since the 1960s, after various scandals involving fraud, corruption, bribes and bad behavior, showing the need to rethink the organizational practices, which are also charged by society. Corporate ethics include a set of organizational principles, values, and norms that can be derived from individuals, organizational statements, or the legal […]