Integral Human Development
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The purpose of this conceptual paper is to expound on the concept of integrality or wholeness. It provides a discussion of how integrality could be possessed and preserved and why it is important in an ever changing and demanding business... more
The purpose of this conceptual paper is to expound on the concept of integrality or wholeness. It will provide a discussion of how integrality could be possessed and preserved and why it is important in an ever changing and demanding... more
Competitive environments have led many businesses to make purely bottom-line decisions despite management theories presenting evidence that humans are at the core of business success. The strong profit motivation has led to corporate... more
This study is an insider action research on the Institute for Integrality, Inc., a recently formed organization dedicated to promoting integral human development. As indicated in its corporate name, integrality or completeness is at the... more
This article, in order to better understand Pope Francis’s newly coined term, “integral ecology,” and its implications for a virtue-based moral theology, has relied upon its insertion in the social encyclical tradition, and specifically... more
Defining what a business is can be a daunting task. Its telos today as before is not very well understood, much less is there a consensus. Philosophers have added to the conversation proposing the main tenets of a business such as... more
Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ 2015 social encyclical, introduces a new term into Catholic social teaching, integral ecology, and with it, gives an impetus to the further development of theologically-based virtue ethics, or virtuous morality,... more
ABSTRAKT [PL] Wyzwania współczesnej antropologii chrześcijańskiej wobec idei transhumanistycznych Człowiek na różnych etapach swojego życia konfrontuje się ze słabościami fizycznymi lub duchowymi, które mają wpływ na codzienne... more
Summary of Paper for 9th International Conference on Catholic Social Thought and Management Education, Manila, Feb. 26-28, 2015. http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/conferences/cst/2015/
The social and spiritual message of Pope Francis calls for all actors, individual and corporate, to engage into a form of radicalness in both thought and deeds. Francis has progressively elaborated a «mission statement» that articulates... more
Summary of paper for 9th International Conference on Catholic Social Thought and Management Education, Manila, Feb. 26-28, 2015. http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/conferences/cst/2015/
The importance of the spiritual dimension in the lives of people living in conditions of poverty and social exclusion and the often-critical role of faith-based organisations has gained increasing relevance in development research and... more