PHILOSOPHICAL TENSIONS AMONG LEADERSHIP, EFFICIENCY, COMMUNITY—AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE ACADEMY
Journal Title: Studia Gilsoniana - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
In any age, at any given time, there are leaders who fail to lead by example. The desires which motivate them, and the means they deploy to cover for this fact, can weave paths of destruction with social costs borne by those who can least afford them—including within the academy. Taking the right steps—both professionally and spiritually—at least theoretically make this avoidable. This article addresses select topics in light of ancient perspectives and recent phenomena alike, including those of: the harmony of Thomistic personalism with stakeholder theory and transformational leadership, respectively; the relationship of Augustinian realism to cognitive dissonance theory and the composition of boards.
Authors and Affiliations
Peter J. Mango
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While there is an absence of treatises devoted to the question of ens ut primum cognitum, there is no shortage of brief and implicit treatments; indeed, nearly every Thomist of the past seven centuries seems to have at l...
COUNTERPOINT IN EXPLANATION OF ORIGINATIVE APPREHENSION
Originative apprehension often has been examined in recent decades in light of Aqui-nas’ reflections. Yet there has not always been agreement in regard to what constitutes such, often due to different emphases given by i...
The Hidden God. Achilles, Aquinas, and Moral Action in an Ordered World
The central goals of this essay are three: (1) to situate St. Thomas’s moral psychology within his cosmology, with special emphasis on the notion of virtual quantity; (2) to illuminate and confirm that moral psychology t...
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GILSON—NEWMAN—BLONDEL?
The article analyzes the dispute between Étienne Gilson and Maurice Blondel. Their dispute is quite notorious and, even though all the reasons behind it are unknown, casts a shadow on the French philosophy of Christian i...