Introduction to this Special Issue: Community Mental Health and the Common Good

This chapter explores the challenges for families and schools in channeling ambitions in more productive directions. Today’s adolescents confront a world of growing pressures, which are also increasing mental health challenges. Parents’ vicarious ambitions can compound the problems if they push children to focus too much on extrinsic markers of success at the expense of intrinsic motivations to learn and ethical values. Both schools and families should help students to develop persistence, resilience, a strong moral compass, and commitment to the common good. Opportunities for service learning, internships and mentorships can encourage constructive ambitions. So too, parents and colleges must better control the preoccupation with prestige that has hijacked admission processes and encouraged gaming the system. Educators should also modify admission criteria such as legacy, donor, and athletic preferences that advantage already advantaged applicants.

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Guest Editors’ Introduction Reviving Tradition: Virtue and the Common Good in Business and Management

Business Ethics Quarterly ◽

10.5840/beq201222217 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 207-210 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Alejo José G. Sison ◽

Edwin M. Hartman ◽

Joan Fontrodona

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Common Good ◽

Human Biology ◽

Special Issue ◽

Human Flourishing ◽

The Common Good ◽

Universal Principles ◽

The Common ◽

Business And Management

ABSTRACT:Virtue ethics, the authors believe, is distinct and superior to other options because it considers, in the first place, which preferences are worth pursuing, rather than just blindly maximizing preferences, and it takes into account intuitions, emotions and experience, instead of acting solely on abstract universal principles. Moreover, virtue ethics is seen as firmly rooted in human biology and psychology, particularly in our freedom, rationality, and sociability. Work, business, and management are presented as vital areas for the development of virtues, not the least with a view to human flourishing. We conclude by introducing the articles included in this special issue.

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Reenvisioning Christian Ethics: An Introduction and Invitation

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel11020074 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 74

Author(s):

Darryl W. Stephens

Keyword(s):

Guest Editor ◽

Common Good ◽

Christian Ethics ◽

Special Issue ◽

Global Society ◽

The Common Good ◽

The Common

This article by the guest editor introduces the theme of this special issue of Religions, reveals some of his underlying convictions and assumptions regarding the task of reenvisioning Christian ethics, and introduces each of the eight articles in this collection. Rather than a discipline, Christian ethics might more accurately be described as a field of scholarly endeavor engaging a range of partner disciplines. Each contributor was invited to offer a distinct perspective on this task, contributing to a collective reenvisioning of the field. The guest editor describes his underlying convictions, that the task of reenvisioning Christian ethics is real, perspectival, dialogical, collaborative, and purposeful. Correspondingly, he sees the task as awe-filled, discerning, responsive, participatory, and hopeful. Envisioned is a confluence of intersectional, interdisciplinary, and intercultural approaches expanding beyond the academy and even beyond the Christian in order to partner with all members of global society for the common good, shared justice, and full flourishing of all of creation.

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Editorial Special Issue—Climate Change and the Common Good

International Journal of Public Theology ◽

10.1163/156973210x510848 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 269-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Clive Pearson

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Common Good ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Common Good ◽

Editorial Special Issue ◽

The Common

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Elevating Problems of Journalistic Power in an Age of Post-Truth

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator ◽

10.1177/1077695819846027 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

pp. 240-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert E. Gutsche

Keyword(s):

Common Good ◽

Journalism Education ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Common Good ◽

Problems And Solutions ◽

Long Time ◽

The Common

Recent pushes to embrace problems and solutions related to working and teaching in an age of “post-truth” reveal problematic, long-time journalistic cultures and approaches of journalism that educators are challenged to address. This essay provides a critical voice to this special issue on education in “post-truth” to interpret current themes of threats to journalism discussed across journalistic communities. This perspective takes into account forces of neoliberalism and hegemonic ideologies within journalism education that, if addressed, could turn trials of “post-truth” into a redevelopment of journalism education for the common good.

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