Reflections On “Citizenship, Inc.”

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. De George

Although I share many of the doubts about corporate citizenship of Néron and Norman, I join in their constructive project both by offering friendly criticism and by suggesting that their approach be extended further than they carry it. I argue first that rather than attempting to reform the language of corporate citizenship, we support its use where the effects are positive; second, that we concentrate on the fifth of their candidates for assessment; and third, that we extend the discussion to consider what it means to be a good global citizen, and whether that is compatible with being a good citizen of a particular state.

ORDO ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Noll

ZusammenfassungWenn es zum Arbeitsplatzabbau oder zur Arbeitsplatzverlagerung bei Großunternehmen kommt, werden zumeist erbitterte Moraldebatten in der Öffentlichkeit geführt. Daher ist es das Ziel dieses Beitrages, das Verhältnis der verschiedenen Verantwortungsträger - Individuen, Unternehmen und /oder Staat - zueinander auszuloten. Es wird eine historisch-genetische Vorgehensweise gewählt, um die für die Debatte relevanten ethischen Kategorien aus dem historischen Kontext verständlich zu machen. Darauf aufbauend wird nach der Anschlussfähigkeit dieser Überlegungen an moderne wirtschaftsethische Ansätze gefragt. Es erweist sich, dass die Corporate-Responsible-und Corporate-Citizenship-Ansätze mit der hier entwickelten Position nicht kompatibel sind, da aus der Sicht eines methodischen und normativen Individualismus letztlich ungeklärt bleibt, warum und unter welchen Bedingungen ein aus privaten Interessen errichtetes Unternehmen zu einer „quasi öffentliche Institution“ oder einem Good Citizen werden sollte. Vielmehr kann die hier gewählte historisch-genetische Vorgehensweise den institutionenethischen Ansatz weiter fundieren, um die Verantwortlichkeiten der Verantwortungsträger angemessen zu bestimmen und abzugrenzen.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Woolf

This article presents an essay about the idea of the global citizen, which has accumulated around the work of international education professionals and practitioners. The propagation of this notion derives from, essentially, two sources: it is a recurrent claim made by study abroad programs and it is used also a means of self-description.The objective is to explore some of the assumptions behind the phrase which, ultimately, do a disservice to the credible aspirations embedded in international education. The phrase when used in a personal context usually describes someone who is, or who aspires to be, broad minded, intellectually engaged with other cultures, aware of the interdependence of nations, committed to tolerance and understanding of difference, and so on. That describes, I will argue, a good citizen. Shared beliefs in international values impose no rights or legal obligations. It is a voluntary, ethical assertion not a form of membership which is one necessary component of citizenship. The global adjective is obfuscation (or, as Leo Rosten might say, a mishegas).


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gitali Choudhury

Education is the backbone of a civilized society. Values have an important role in education system of any society. Most important thing is that, education should be based on some core values of human being like truthfulness, honesty, justice, good behavior etc. Only this can help a society to maintain a peaceful atmosphere. As all human beings are social animals, so this is the duty of every human being to obey their social responsibility. Mahamana Malaviyaji is one of those great personalities who felt his social responsibility very well and established Banaras Hindu University to bring people out from the mode of ignorance. He values our Indian culture and tradition, which is based on Bhagavat Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. His genuine effort was to build the character of new generations, so that they can be a good citizen of the country and thus can serve the country. This paper intends to focus on Mahamana’s practical thoughts and applications to contribute to the value-based education system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Nomensen Freddy Siahaan

After a long time was not heard to the public area, lately death penalty toward the criminal cases that classified as extraordinary crime are appear. The author discovers electronic article about the execution of the death penalty which is the prosecutor prepares to execute death penalty toward the drugs dealer. The president of Republic of Indonesia stated that it is necessary to give a deterrent effect to the convicted  criminal and keep the morality of Indonesian teenagers. According to my opinion, the author argues that it will be better and wiser if we discuss about renovating all of the Penitentiary in Indonesia than debating whether death penalty could be done in Indonesia or not, because it will be displeasure many parties, death penalty infringed the human rights of the convicted criminals and cause psychological burden to them, families, the executor of the death penalty, and other parties. Because if we have to improve the quality of the Penitentiary, if the function of Penitentiary for fostering moralily has been optimal or properly enough to the convicted criminals, Indonesia will be no longer need the death penalty option as sanction to the convicted crimanals including for the extraordinary crime (especially for drugs trafficking in our country). Penitentiary is one of the public services which aims for fostering the people that initially have bad habits (commited to the crime), so that they will have the awareness to change their bad attitude into the be better ones, will not harm others, and positively contributed to the society. Already Penitentiary’s conditions should be designed in such a way and as good as possible, so that the inmates feels like at their own home (like having a second home after his own home), and feel humaner to spend their days in the Penitentiary. The author believes that if the Penitentiary has been improved and optimized its function well, then the real purpose of Penitentiary will definitely achieved. As stated in Law Number 12 Year 1995 regarding to Penitentiary Article 2 which states "sanction system are organized in order to fostering the convicted criminals in order to be the real man, aware of their fault, improve themselves, and not to repeat the criminal act so that they can be friendly received by the community, can actively participated in the development of our country, and can socialize themselves as good citizen."Article 3 on this regulation also intensifies the function of Penitentiary "the function of Penitentiary is to prepare convicted criminals to be able to properly integrated to the society, so they can be accepted again as members of the public who are free and responsible ones." 


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