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Cooperative Wisdom
Bringing People Together When Things Fall Apart
Langbeschreibung
Why, despite their best efforts, do good people find themselves in conflict? Cooperative Wisdom: Bringing People Together When Things Fall Apart introduces a novel approach to ethics that consistently dissolves conflict, restores goodwill, builds common purpose, and helps people thrive. Developed from years of scholarship and proven practice, this insightful approach to conflict resolution is effective in boardrooms and family rooms, classrooms and committees, faith communities and government agencies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Five Virtues that Dissolve Conflict and Restore Cooperation
Chapter 1
Being Good Is Not Enough:
Why We Need Social Virtues Now More than Ever
Chapter 2
Proactive Compassion:
Anticipating and Responding to Vulnerabilities
Practices:
1. Respond to risks revealed by specialization
2. Intercept harms triggered by change
3. Address gaps between assigned responsibilities
Chapter 3
Deep Discernment :
Discovering Bedrock Values
Practices:
1. Distinguish values from means
2. Be vigilant about accumulating harms
3. Honor multiple points of view
Chapter 4
Intentional Imagination:
Expanding What's Possible
Practices:
1. Examine assumptions
2. Extend known resources
3. Excavate concealed resources
Chapter 5
Inclusive Integrity:
Reworking Cooperation So Everyone Can Thrive
Practices:
1. Enlist flexible specialists
2. Anticipate predictable weakness
3. Treat every plan as a hypothesis
Chapter 6
Creative Courage:
Embracing the Risks of Engagement
Practices:
1. Address the failing hypothesis
2. Confront imbalanced benefits without undue blame
3. Hold tight to the cooperative vision
Chapter 7
Cooperative Wisdom:
The Social Virtues in Action
Acknowledgments
Appendix:
The Five Virtues and Fifteen Practices That Support Them
Index
About the Authors
Five Virtues that Dissolve Conflict and Restore Cooperation
Chapter 1
Being Good Is Not Enough:
Why We Need Social Virtues Now More than Ever
Chapter 2
Proactive Compassion:
Anticipating and Responding to Vulnerabilities
Practices:
1. Respond to risks revealed by specialization
2. Intercept harms triggered by change
3. Address gaps between assigned responsibilities
Chapter 3
Deep Discernment :
Discovering Bedrock Values
Practices:
1. Distinguish values from means
2. Be vigilant about accumulating harms
3. Honor multiple points of view
Chapter 4
Intentional Imagination:
Expanding What's Possible
Practices:
1. Examine assumptions
2. Extend known resources
3. Excavate concealed resources
Chapter 5
Inclusive Integrity:
Reworking Cooperation So Everyone Can Thrive
Practices:
1. Enlist flexible specialists
2. Anticipate predictable weakness
3. Treat every plan as a hypothesis
Chapter 6
Creative Courage:
Embracing the Risks of Engagement
Practices:
1. Address the failing hypothesis
2. Confront imbalanced benefits without undue blame
3. Hold tight to the cooperative vision
Chapter 7
Cooperative Wisdom:
The Social Virtues in Action
Acknowledgments
Appendix:
The Five Virtues and Fifteen Practices That Support Them
Index
About the Authors
Dr. Donald Scherer is Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department of Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For more than 40 years, he has thought deeply about environmental ethics and social environments in which people can thrive. Cooperative Wisdom distills insights gleaned from his research and writing, teaching and mentoring.
Dr. Scherer has also put his ideas into practice, winning national respect for devising innovative partnerships that respond effectively to incipient conflict. He has consulted with businesses, faith communities, volunteer organizations, and educational institutions including Georgia State University where he facilitated cooperation between the university and the surrounding metropolitan area and Santa Clara University where he worked to improve regional water management.
Among other projects, he has advised the World Wildlife Fund on enlisting Fortune 500 corporations in ecological restoration, promoted interfaith dialogue through the World Council of Churches, developed ethical guidelines for minimizing the harm associated with responding to oil spills with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), devised plans for exotic species management with regional park systems, and consulted with various cities on innovative design for urban corridors.
Dr. Scherer served as past president of Green Energy Ohio. He is the lead author of Upstream/Downstream: Issues in Environmental Ethics and co-author with Dr. James Child of Two Paths towards Peace. He lives with his wife, Char, in a wind-powered home in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Dr. Scherer has also put his ideas into practice, winning national respect for devising innovative partnerships that respond effectively to incipient conflict. He has consulted with businesses, faith communities, volunteer organizations, and educational institutions including Georgia State University where he facilitated cooperation between the university and the surrounding metropolitan area and Santa Clara University where he worked to improve regional water management.
Among other projects, he has advised the World Wildlife Fund on enlisting Fortune 500 corporations in ecological restoration, promoted interfaith dialogue through the World Council of Churches, developed ethical guidelines for minimizing the harm associated with responding to oil spills with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), devised plans for exotic species management with regional park systems, and consulted with various cities on innovative design for urban corridors.
Dr. Scherer served as past president of Green Energy Ohio. He is the lead author of Upstream/Downstream: Issues in Environmental Ethics and co-author with Dr. James Child of Two Paths towards Peace. He lives with his wife, Char, in a wind-powered home in Bowling Green, Ohio.
ISBN-13:
9780997166842
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
236
Autor:
Donald Scherer
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Windows
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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