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Ethical Design Intelligence The Virtuous Designer


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2020 | 182 Pages | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: 2019047269 | PDF | 2 MB
Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design. It offers designers from disciplines such as architecture, urban design, planning, landscape, interior, and industrial design an alternative ethical framework in which to expand their thinking about their practice.Arguing that design today is primarily an agency driven by the momentum of globalization, embedded in economy, materialism, and utility, the book reconceptualizes the notion of virtue in design practice. Across chapters covering topics such as virtuous character, creative agency, and unsustainable practices, the book scrutinizes design through a philosophical lens.d’Anjou dissects articulations from different philosophical thinkers from antiquity to contemporary time to reveal that ethics is fundamental to everything affected by design. Countering well-established modes of postmodern relativism in design, which has led to "defuturing" and "unsustainability," ethical realism is presented as an alternative solution. This book is written for designers, educators, researchers, and students.

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Virtuous Leadership An Agenda for Personal Excellence


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2007 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 1594170592 | EPUB | 1 MB
Drawing on the lives of some of the greatest political, intellectual and religious leaders of modern times, and the author’s personal experience,Virtuous Leadershipdemonstrates that leadership and virtue are not only compatible, they are actually synonymous.Virtuous Leadershipdefines each of the classical human virtues most essential to leadership – magnanimity, humility, prudence, courage, self-control and justice. It demonstrates how these virtues promote personal transformation and the attainment of self-fulfillment. It also considers the Christian supernatural virtues of faith, hope and charity without which no study of leadership can be complete. The book’s final section, Towards Victory, offers a methodology for the achievement of interior growth tailored to the needs of busy, professional people intent on imbuing their lives with a transcendent purpose. Thus, the aim ofVirtuous Leadershipis ultimately practical. It is meant to be your guidebook in the quest for moral excellence.

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