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The Principle of Excellence : a Framework for Social Ethics.

This book disturbs the "normal" and depoliticized meaning of virtue through a genealogical reading of the debates, conceptual struggles, and ambiguities that were cleansed by virtue ethicists to produce today's conception of excellence. This approach provides the narrative raw materia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wariboko, Nimi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book disturbs the "normal" and depoliticized meaning of virtue through a genealogical reading of the debates, conceptual struggles, and ambiguities that were cleansed by virtue ethicists to produce today's conception of excellence. This approach provides the narrative raw material to craft a new meaning of excellence as a creative actualization of the potentials for human prosperity. The fundamental question asked and addressed about excellence is how communities can use excellence as the organizingprinciple for political and economic development. The author explores how large-scale mode.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:9780739136409
0739136402
1282561650
9781282561656