Spiritual Discernment as a Method of Judgment

Luk Bouckaert ()

A chapter in Managing VUCA Through Integrative Self-Management, 2017, pp 15-25 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents the thesis that spiritual discernment spiritual discernment is a method to overcome some of the perplexities of the VUCA World (VUCA is an acronym for ‘Velocity, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity’). As a concept and practice that originated in a religiousreligious context religious context , spiritual discernment was meant to guide difficult choices in life. However, I believe we can learn a lot from it to improve decision-making and a practice of Self-Righteousnessself-righteousness in business. The chapter has three parts. First I will clarify the concept of spiritual discernment and give a challenging example of its practice. The second part (2-5) attempts to give it a more philosophical foundation by linking spiritual discernment to Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt ’s theory of judgment. The third part (6-7) applies spiritual discernment as a method of judgment and Self-Righteousness to the field of business ethicsbusiness ethics .

Keywords: Business Ethic; Leadership Style; Good Judgment; Aesthetic Judgment; Ethical Imperative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52231-9_2

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