Does it make sense to blame the system?

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Does it make sense to blame the system?

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We live in a world with such complicated corporations and organizations, that it’s hard to even start talking about making them ethical. Verizon, Microsoft, Facebook, they’re all so big, How can we expect them to be moral? And then there are so many rules, the pressure of culture, the overwhelming nature of living in a democracy where everyone else seems to find self-interested loopholes. How can we be good when we have so little control?

Liza Herzog is Associate Professor and Rosalind-Franklin-Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Groningen, Netherlands. She is the author and editor of numerous books including, Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society.

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Publication Date

2-9-2020

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Institute for Philosophy in Public Life

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Grand Forks, ND

Keywords

Organizational sociology--Philosophy ; Organizational change--Philosophy ; Organizational change--Moral and ethical aspects. ; Business ethics

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Philosophy

Does it make sense to blame the system?

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