The Business of Business: Recapturing the Personalist Perspective
The business of business properly understood is necessarily personalistic. The human person acting as an entrepreneur or working in business is not merely froth and bubble in the stream of history but is a freely acting person motivated toward specific ends. The business person can be seen as an exe...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University
2020
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Journal of religion & society. Supplement
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Pages: 107-121 |
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Summary: | The business of business properly understood is necessarily personalistic. The human person acting as an entrepreneur or working in business is not merely froth and bubble in the stream of history but is a freely acting person motivated toward specific ends. The business person can be seen as an exemplar of what it means to be a human being. The Economy of Communion project is an attempt to regain and promote the personalist nature of business. In this perspective commercial life is not seen an end in itself since it creates a space in which we can realize our personal dignity in creative action. As human persons we live in an existential tension searching to become who we are. The drama of business life is a part of a greater whole; of a reality that unfolds who we are as human beings. |
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ISSN: | 1941-8450 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion & society. Supplement
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