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The Principle of Excellence: A Framework for Social Ethics by Nimi Wariboko PhD

By Nimi Wariboko PhD

This e-book is a daring try to reconceptualize excellence. it's not the advantage of doing whatever good or the suggest of 2 extremes, yet a clearing which permits people to occur their prospects and creatively face up to stumbling blocks. the idea that of excellence is emancipated from the over the top obstacle with order and stable citizenry to develop into a libratory precept for interrogating all social associations within the identify of a higher destiny.

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What is it about human beings that may possibly undergird the ceaseless search for freedom? I argue that what undergirds economic development and its aim of freedom is excellence. Excellence is the matrix from which freedoms come forth. The upshot of our analysis in chapter 8 and the chapters leading up to it is that I put forward a new philosophical perspective on economic development—that of development as human excellence. Economic development is achieved by nations deliberately creating the conditions of possibilities for all citizens to creatively actualize their potentialities.

19 And in this follow-through the subject is not an agent of change standing apart from the change itself. Both in the doer and the deed, excellence is at work through its unfolding. A question suggests itself as we bring this section to a close. If the quest to realize potentials is a result of the self-world encounter, then why are other creatures, like animals (especially primates), not doing the same? What is it about human nature that may shed light on this question? The quest to real- The Making of a New Meaning of Excellence  33 ize potentials is in a fundamental sense a quest for what is lacking, for what is beyond and above, and how to fulfill it, and is a human desire to live on into the future.

The model is then used to investigate the interplay between excellence and ethics and to map out some of the possible decision-scenarios leaders and managers of societies (large-scale systems) characterized by contingency and possibilities may face. Engaging the theory of social practice and virtues developed by philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre and the notion of prophetic spirit by theologian of culture Mark Lewis Taylor, I develop in chapter 7 a fresh understanding of social practice based on the concept of excellence already forged in this study.

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