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The principle of excellence : a framework for social ethics / Nimi Wariboko.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739136409
  • 0739136402
  • 1282561650
  • 9781282561656
  • 0739136402
  • 9786612561658
  • 6612561653
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Principle of excellence.DDC classification:
  • 179/.9 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1533.E82
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
pt. I: What is excellence? -- The making of a new meaning of excellence -- Exegeting excellence -- The core features of excellence -- New being : participation and imitation -- Justice, love, and hope -- pt. II: Social-ethical framework -- A framework for social ethics -- Social practice as boundary of possibilities -- Excellence and economic development.
Summary: This book is a bold attempt to reconceptualize excellence. It is no longer the virtue of doing something well or the mean of two extremes, but a clearing which allows humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles. The concept of excellence is emancipated from the excessive concern with order and good citizenry to become a libratory principle for interrogating all social institutions in the name of a better future.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I: What is excellence? -- The making of a new meaning of excellence -- Exegeting excellence -- The core features of excellence -- New being : participation and imitation -- Justice, love, and hope -- pt. II: Social-ethical framework -- A framework for social ethics -- Social practice as boundary of possibilities -- Excellence and economic development.

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This book is a bold attempt to reconceptualize excellence. It is no longer the virtue of doing something well or the mean of two extremes, but a clearing which allows humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles. The concept of excellence is emancipated from the excessive concern with order and good citizenry to become a libratory principle for interrogating all social institutions in the name of a better future.

English.