Professional Documents
Culture Documents
I. Introduction
- Proper orientation of reason can never be absent from the human activity
- Divine Plan = bear fruit = generosity and charity, but sins can undermine His plan
- Money must serve not rule for the real well-being of humanity to win, humans must find a way
- Goal: Renewal of humanity from speculative economy, which deals with interest and risk, to
- Must share fruits because it does not only represent distribution, but multiplication as well
- Sees profit and shareholder’s benefit as a bigger goal than other stakeholders’ (link b/w
- Offshore Sites- dividing investments b/w two or many countries as a way to prevent double
taxation
Hypocrisy occurs as a result because investors believe crime committed elsewhere other than
- Unequal tax systems in different nations tend to put the economically weaker people at a
disadvantage while rewarding the rich. This overall non-transparency of the tax systems causes
trouble.
Offshore sites create enormous outflow of capital in third world countries, which foster
economic and political crises (aggravated debt) that distract them from their initial healthy
growth.
Government trying to mitigate this offshore financial bases problem have been unsuccessful
b/c these bases (aka investors) have substantial economic influence to void all the proposed and
passed regulations. The solution needed is to start at the international organization level.
Conclusion End Goal: Joining together all “good will” actions, no matter what extent of
9/10/18
- The people who do have money have to be responsible for those at the margins
- Ethics has come to be known as a counterproductive exercise
- Ethisphere Institute announces the most ethical companies w/ Dell, Ford Motor Company, and
The growing method and focus on measuring culture and keeping up w/ trends (ex:
New Governance trends including how to better ensure you have an educated and informed
governing authority
Companies must have: robust corporate compliance programs, strong CSR policies, comply w/
federal sentencing guidelines, should be abiding by international labor, anti-trust and trade laws,
should be monitoring supply chain to make sure companies are also sticking to international law
9/13/18
How much is too much money, sex, and power? Or is there enough? If not, we become
Define moral philosophy, moral theology, morality, and ethics, as well as relationship
- Internet is an infrastructure on which the World Wide Web lives, the Web is what we see not
the internet
- If the internet goes down the Web goes down, but not the other way around
- Morality = Maximum
Law Minimum
- Augustine and Aquinas both claim we cannot find happiness here
9/17/2018
- Morality and ethics are the underlying VVV (Vision, Values, or Virtues) of a company that
prompt actions/activity
- Critical Questions:
3. What are three (3) ways that friendship helps the human person become good?
- Qualities of a Good Friendship: available, loyalty, supportive, dedication, not quid pro quo (I
- JoHari
others do not
don’t know
- Aristotle on Friendship: happiness (eudaimonia) is some kind of activity of the soul in
conformity w/ virtue, only b/w persons, the friends must practice benevolence, the benevolence
must be reciprocal
Thomas Aquinas on Friendship: There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true
friendship, “mutual benevolence love on a common ground, and has as its normal rule,
unselfishness…(Genesis)”
5 Books of the Bible (aka Torah or Pentateuch) – Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuterony,
Lavetius
1. Friendship only possible when we are willing to open our lives to others – drop phones and
2. Every real friendship contributes to our moral development and growth in the virtues b/c
friendship draws us out of ourselves and teaches us to care for others (benevolence or
beneficene)
3. Friendships form us morally b/c in ordinary life in any friendship we grow in virtues most
Saying: “Show me your friends and I know the type of person you are.”
- Jesus’ friends include Peter, John, Matthew, Judas, Mary Magdalene, and Lazarus, the only
people left over after Jesus’ crucification are Mary and John
9/24/18
Morality/Ethics – VVV in Ethics impact moral life and how we live our life
- What does it mean to be human? What are some distinguishing characteristics from all other
animals?
- Oscar Wilde sign: “Be who you are, everyone else is taken”
- Theological Anthropology: addresses humans as created in the image of God, with a special
qualitative relation to God compared to other species. Deals w/ the restoration of human
relationship w/ God through life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Carried out in
dialogue with other disciplines studying diff aspects of humanity and can offer a theological
- To be human means to be an embodied spirit who thinks, acts, speaks, and desires, created in
- Bible says humans are good – everything created by God is perfect and as it intended, humans
- Vocation – an occupation to which a person is specifically drawn or for which they are suited,
trained, or qualified
10/1/18
1. Why is freedom a “dangerous topic”? Is freedom problematic for the marketplace?
2. What does it mean when Jesus is the “Great Event” of freedom? Implications for business?
- Freedom is both a gift and a virtue (perfect that freedom through practice and education)
- W/ law comes freedom b/c there are responsibilities to the common good
- Civic, prudent - doing or saying the right thing at the right time for the right reason , and
1. Discipline
2. Progress
3. Perfection
10/4/18
responsibility to what?
1. Demands of a relationship
2. Freedom
- All was created as good temptation came in leading to a choice corruption (sin) of
freedom
- Between Genesis to Revelation and Apocalypse there is a power struggle b/w god and
humanity
- Sin is about getting lost in relationship
- External Transgression:
3. Anomia or Pesha: lawlessness and rebellion – breaking of a covenant (promise b/w two
people)
- Sin: debilitating quality of soul, “walk in darkness”, “wander from path”, “hard heart and
stiff neck”, alienation from self, God, others, perverse quality of character
- Types of Sin:
- The Original Sin – while God’s creation remains indisputably good, it is not perfect and
- Historically, business ethics has been approached via negativa, that is with a retelling of
corporate realities gone awry and the stakeholders’ profit put in jeopardy. Good Business
takes a somewhat radically different approach, especially in most of its case studies. Explain
that approach and evaluate that way as to whether or not you believe that it is a viable way
on the bad behavior dominating the business world that is barely in check, the book uses
positive case studies to highlight the wonderful things that businesses actually do. I believe
this is a viable way of studying business because students have always been exposed, no
matter through education or online news, to mainly the evil and corruption that occur in the
marketplace. Therefore, this positive radical approach can disapprove this notion and show
students how there is good in the business world and that it is only overshadowed by the
3. Identify and describe two (2) challenges of business ethics, one positive and one
negative dimension.
Positive It can get difficult in distinguishing what are the right business ethics when
what is ethically acceptable in the marketplace differs from region to region. For
instance, in Asia, insider trading is allowed, but in the United States it is considered a
crime. Companies must establish strict management philosophy for their employees to
Negative When companies conform to the morality of business ethics, some would
end up losing profit as they are forced by their morality to hire local laborers instead of
cheap child laborers in a factory overseas. Labor cost would cut a big chunk into their
expenses.
10/15/18
- ROSCA Rotating…Saving…Association
- SILC Advantages- hands on way to teach good group mgmt. skills, practical way of
learning food group participation skills, teaches members financial and resource mgmt.,
creates savings habit and ability to invest productive activities, develops and strengthens
for development
- Last Mile Free-to-Fee Transition- training on financial education and marketing basics,
last mile retail of solar lamps and improved cookstove, agricultural input supply and
- Integrating SILC into other programs- members willing to share their ideas w/
development actors, work as active partners rather than passive recipients, learn to
that deliver value) in savings groups? (Why, who, what level, reporting (or not), social
value, and moral hazard issues (is my money distorting the market and causing
problems?))
Ex: KIVA??
- Is there business case for linking savings groups to formal financial service providers?
whom, cost regulation (for savings groups, for promoters, for govt), advantages of
disadvantages
10/18/18
- Concupiscence- baptism x original sin; predilection for doing evil or bad things
Conscience tells us what is right or wrong, can have a religious source, rooted in notion of
human nature, often neg in character, telling us what is not right from wrong (Don’t remember if
- Guilt is good because guilt asks the question of what I did is wrong that is not compatible with
my conscience
- Root Meaning of Conscience: an action, not a thing; latin word for to know
- Conscience: self-conscious, integrate reason and emotion, will in self committed decisions,
right/wrong, good/evil
- Prudence- doing or saying the right thing at the right time for the right reason
1. What is the Christian call to love, its motivation for loving, the spectrum of human actions of
“love”?
- God loves person, person loves God, then person loves others???
Love is transformative
- Characteristics of God’s Love: Creative & Affirming, Insightfully Directed to the True Well-
11/8/2018
1. Market Value So much of the missing people in the world is caused by people only
3. The expendability of the people first Muslim representative in Michigan, first black woman
- The way the church approaches biomedical social teaching is very different than sexual social
teaching:
- Racialism is believed by church to be ok and taxation or usury could not be imposed upon a
financial relationship
- Name of these documents are found in Vatican.ca, 1891-2015 Church’s response (list 6
11/15/18
- 7 Themes of Catholic Social Teaching: (Know them and where they are violated in the
marketplace)
1. Life and Dignity of a Human Person – all life is sacred ex: abortion, death penalty
2. Call to Family, Community, and Participation – protect institution supporting our community
ex: marriage
6. Solidarity
- Canon – grouping of official texts, last encyclical Pope Francis, 2015, Laudato Si
- Anawim – grouping of the orphan, widow, and the stranger (in Deuteronomy)
- 4 Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (1st three = Synoptic gospel = Horizontal
Christianity – all begin in infancy narrative, John written much later to discuss theologically
- Roman
- Corinthians 1
- Corinthians 2
- Galatians
- Timothy 1
- Timothy 2
11/19/18
- Distinction b/w books of the Bible: History, Prophets, Writings (wisdom), Christian Scriptures
- Canon – official roster or group (show what is included and what is not included)
- New Testament – people share w/ each other, but why is everyone so greedy?
Everyone is connected
- Common Good & the State – State has important role to play in seeking the good for all
- Common Good defined: sum total of conditions of social living whereby individuals are
enabled more fully and more readily to achieve their own perfection
11/26/2018
- Stewardship – safeguarding material and human resources and using them responsibly are one
pleasures
- Good Company Index affected by consumer expectations & transparency, take care of the
communities they touch (abide by laws and regulations, caring for employees, using core
capabilities to help local solve local and global problems, showing restraint in executive
- Dietruch Bonhoeffer??
- Unless you reach rock bottom, you do not know what value is
- Repeat the phrase on “Poor in Trajectory if CST” for test
Human Trafficking poster concrete steps that are new or been done
3. How are people involved with decision making about economic decisions?
Define subsidiarity area? Their four key moments? The problem? Relationship between social
everyone
Subsidiarity – decisions can be made on the lowest level should be made on the lowest level
1. The human person, created in the image and likeness of God, should be treated w/ dignity
4. Poverty is a scandal – poverty would cease to exist if human dignity, common good, and
- Bottom of Pyramid (BoP) – people that have been left out of the equation/decision-making
- Social Entrepreneurship – use of start-up companies and their entrepreneurs to develop, fund,
- New paradigm = a new understanding of how business is defined; based upon relationship