Yes / The paper addresses the problem of pursuing ethical business practices purely under the aegis of ‘integrity’, as frequently
used to characterise morally desirable traits. Drawing on the work of philosopher Thomas Kasulis, the paper pairs ‘integrity’
with ‘intimacy’ as a critical concept, placing greater attention upon relational properties, helping to understand ethics as
existing between individuals, things and the environment. The argument is that by paying careful attention to spatial and
temporal dynamics and proximities of exchange, businesses can better maintain and extend practices of integrity. It reminds
us that ethics are developmental (not transcendental); that the cultivation of ethics provides greater depth and ownership
and pertains to matters of the body and habits. The paper contributes a way of reading exchanges in the marketplace beyond
prescriptive accounts of integrity. Through the lens of both integrity and intimacy, it identifies how we actually ‘live’ or
practice greater responsiveness to exchanges.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/15880 |
| Date | 30 April 2018 |
| Creators | Fukukawa, Kyoko |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons .org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
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