Morality 6: HRM and Universalism

Thomas Klikauer
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Thomas Klikauer: University of Western Sydney

Chapter 6 in Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management, 2014, pp 161-184 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The very existence of ethics demands universalism. This reaches to the core of what ethics and moral philosophy is because ‘philosophy emerged in Greece against doxa and orthodoxy as the call to explore and live according to universal ideas’.596 Perhaps German moral philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) remains one of modernity’s single most important philosophers on universal morality [universale Moralität]. This is due to Kant’s categorical imperative or universal law denoting ‘act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contra-diction’.597 Today, Kant’s moral philosophy of universal law is, for example, found in universal human rights that apply to all human beings without exception.598 It dates back to the

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Moral Cognition; Categorical Imperative; Kantian Morality; Universal Morality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137455789_8

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