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Morality 6: HRM and Universalism

In: Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management

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  • Thomas Klikauer

    (University of Western Sydney)

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The very existence of ethics demands universalism. This reaches to the core of what ethics and moral philosophy is because ‘philosophy emerged in Greece against doxa and orthodoxy as the call to explore and live according to universal ideas’.596 Perhaps German moral philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) remains one of modernity’s single most important philosophers on universal morality [universale Moralität]. This is due to Kant’s categorical imperative or universal law denoting ‘act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contra-diction’.597 Today, Kant’s moral philosophy of universal law is, for example, found in universal human rights that apply to all human beings without exception.598 It dates back to the

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  • Thomas Klikauer, 2014. "Morality 6: HRM and Universalism," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management, chapter 6, pages 161-184, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-45578-9_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137455789_8
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