La prudence selon Thomas d'Aquin: Un éclairage pour le manager contemporain

Bernard Guéry ()
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Bernard Guéry: ER IPC - ER IPC - Facultés libres de philosophie et de psychologie

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Abstract: Today's managers must make decisions in a world where irrationality fills a great role. They lack the necessary tools to identify all possibilities laying in front of them. Reflecting upon prudence after Thomas Aquinas can help us conceptualize managers' decisions in this contingent world. Prudence enables us to coordinate all the different possible actions towards the purpose of human life. Hence, a dynamic tension directs prudence between two demands: skillfulness and science. In this polarity is found the answer to two needs managers have: the one of meaning, for prudence does not forget the purpose of human life; and that of the key concepts to understand contingent reality in order to act, for it integrates singularities.

Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; Prudence; Manager; Decision; Irrational; Thomas d'Aquin; prudence; manager; decision; Irrationnel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-03-16
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