 Ethico-power and the CityKeith Pheby Chapter 5 in Ethics and Empowerment, 1999, pp 147-169 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Why in the West, is politeness regarded with suspicion? Why does courtesy pass for a distance or a hypocrisy? Why is an ‘informal’ relation more desirable than a coded one? Occidental politeness is based on a certain mythology of the ‘person’. Topologically, Western man is reputed to be double, composed of a social, factitious, false ‘outside’ and of a personal, authentic ‘inside’. According to this schema, the human ‘person’ is that site filled by nature, girdled, closed by a social envelop which is anything but highly regarded: the polite gesture is a sign of respect exchanged from one plenitude to the other, across the worldly limit. However, as soon as the ‘inside’ of the person is judged respectable, it is logical to recognize this person more suitably by denying all interest in his worldly envelope: hence it is the supposedly frank, brutal, naked relation, stripped of all signalectics, indifferent to any intermediary code, which will best respect the other’s individual value: to be impolite is to be true — so speaks our Western morality… Keywords: Business Ethic; Integrate Diversity; Psychological Contract; Organisation Planning; Ethical Subject (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37272-6_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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