Bringing Telos Back

Wayne Nordness Eastman

Chapter Chapter 4 in Why Business Ethics Matters, 2015, pp 93-115 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We moderns think we know important truths about the universe and its workings that our classical predecessors, no matter how brilliant, did not. In many respects, our confidence is warranted. We know the velocity with which our planet is revolving around the star that spawned it, and the speed with which it is rotating on its axis; we know the velocity with which the arm of the galaxy in which our solar system is located is turning around the center of the galaxy; we know the red shift that allows us to calculate how fast our galaxy and the rest of the universe are now pushing apart, some thirteen billion or so years after the great expansion, or “Big Bang,” that got our universe going. We have a picture of our corner of the universe that is not only beautiful—the green and blue ball of Earth; the middle-aged yellow Sun that will one day grow old, swell up into a red giant, and then die; the billions and billions of stars in the great twin spiral nebulae of the Milky Way nebulae and its neighbor, Andromeda—but that accords with verifiable empirical truths in a way our ancestors’ pictures did not. Further, we now know enough about how evolution works in a variety of organisms both to appreciate Aristotle’s perspicacity in the first quote, in which he anticipates the essence of Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and to suggest to him that he may well have radically overstated the case against favorable variations arising by chance.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Game Theory; Dominant Strategy; Ordinary Language; Evolutionary Game Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137430441_5

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