Embodied Ethics for Our Interdependent World: How Our Micro-Level Choices Lead to Macro-Level Impacts

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Author(s): Julianne E. Maurseth (Dominican University of California, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 19
Source title: Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization: Cultural, Socio-Political and Economic Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Charles Wankel (St. John's University, USA)and Shaun Malleck (University of California, Irvine, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-332-4.ch002

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Global Business / Information Ethics / Security & Forensics

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This chapter poses timely questions for us as global citizens regarding our capacities for ethical choice in a complex, interdependent world, and offers the multi-discipline perspective of “embodied ethics” for expanding our conscious capacities. Today more than ever – in business, in government, in education, in our daily lives - we need to recognize how our micro-level choices lead to macro-level impacts. Research across neurology, biology, quantum physics, and other fields indicates we human beings are multi-dimensional: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual – simultaneously – and therefore have greater capacities than we consciously use. “Embodied ethics” is a synthesis which explains why and how we physically experience our interconnectivity as human beings, from which ethical choices arise, and why we may listen to our own body, or “emotional intelligence” and heart - or not - in the midst of an ethical decision process. Six stories are offered which illustrate these dynamics: three stories reveal the ways individuals felt their own interconnectivity with others, giving rise to ethical choices with positive global impacts, and three stories reveal the ways individuals denied their own interconnectivity with others, giving rise to unethical choices with negative global impacts. Specific methods, such as conscious breathing and heart awareness, are explained so readers can practice aspects of these dynamics and recognize how their own micro-level choices may lead to macro-level impacts. Emphasis is placed on the inherent human design to expand from self-awareness to group awareness to global awareness as we wake up to our own and others hearts. Hope for all of life lives here.

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