Deliberating Animal Values: a Pragmatic-Pluralistic Approach to Animal Ethics.

Debates in animal ethics are largely characterized by ethical monism, the search for a single, timeless, and essential trait in which the moral standing of animals can be grounded. In this paper, we argue that a monistic approach towards animal ethics hampers and oversimplifies the moral debate. The value pluralism present in our contemporary societies requires a more open and flexible approach to moral inquiry. This paper advocates the turn to a pragmatic, pluralistic approach to animal ethics. It contributes to the development of such an approach in two ways. It offers a pragmatist critique of ethical monism in animal ethics and presents the results of a qualitative study into the value diversity present in the different ways of thinking about animals in the Netherlands. Carefully arranged group discussions resulted in the reconstruction of four distinctive moral value frameworks that may serve as instruments in the future process of moral inquiry and deliberation in the reflection on animal use. © 2010 The Author(s)

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Correlations between holistic awareness of time and innovativeness

Time and innovativeness are crucial for organizations and human beings and are very hard to master. Without time management, this imperative resource is wasted or at least utilized poorly. Without innovativeness, there will be no new innovations, inventions, approaches or change to better. Even that these are commonly recognized to be very important, these issues are often still neglected. Time and innovativeness are quite similar also other ways. Both phenomena should be understood from a wider perspective in order to maximize their utilization. Both need to be approached from both personal and organizational point of views as well as understood human factor in both. Both phenomena can be utilized better by conscious awareness towards them and linkages between them should be understood. This paper presents research which shows that time and innovativeness development needs are behaving similarly. The correlation between these two phenomena was found and different development personalities are introduced as a conclusion. Future research aspects and recommendations are also discussed in this paper