Everyman’s Decision-Making: Micro-Ethics

Paolo D’Anselmi

Chapter 8 in Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility, 2011, pp 78-85 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Let us recall the formulation of this value as I proposed it at the end of Chapter 4: Living micro-ethics does not require heroism: avoid disinformation and do not reveal the faults of others. These are already acts of micro-ethics. I call this ethics ‘micro’ as opposed to the big ethics, always concerned about whistle-blowing, stem cells, abortion, theft. This ethics is something you live twenty times a day, not once in a lifetime. [It is interesting to recall here that the Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki in his Kafka on the Shore sustains that responsibility depends on imagination. Lack of imagination leads to a personality that can’t take responsibility because it cannot imagine the consequences of actions or non-actions. Murakami also quotes William Yates: ‘In dreams begin responsibilities.’] An example of the absence of micro-ethics is the persistent organizational divorce in insurance companies between the sales and the claims departments, thus making it very hard for the customer to obtain honest claims processing.

Keywords: Unethical Behavior; Ethical Rating; Identity Theft; Collectivist Approach; Welfare Capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230319578_9

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