Business as a Calling
Work and the Extended Life

  • Title:

    Business as a Calling
  • Hardcover ISBN:

    0684827484
  • Hardcover Dimensions:

    0.93'' x 7.83'' x 5.33''
  • 256 Hardcover pages

This book is a practical guide to the ethical responsibilities of individuals and firms based on moral theory and the real-world experiences of business professionals. The author is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion and Public Policy at AEI. A summary of the book follows. This inquiry is for Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others who take the inner life seriously, including those who, while hesitant to belong to any church, take seriously their vocation as thoughtful and self-questioning beings.

Those who have eaten awhile of material success know that there is more to life than bread. They desire more than having. Many are haunted by the awareness that they are not getting all that is to be drunk of life, that there is somewhere an unfound door, through which what they seek is revealed. The most hardheaded people often feel this most keenly: whatever they attain, that is not it--not what they are looking for.

Further, I imagine that there is tremendous, untapped good will in many of these people and that everything I am about to write is in some sense already known to them, perhaps not in a way that they can put into words, but in a way that will ring true to them the minute they hear it said.

Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at AEI.

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About the Author

 

Michael
Novak
  • Michael Novak, a philosopher, theologian, and author, is the 1994 recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He has been an emissary to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has written twenty-seven books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society. His latest book is No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers (Doubleday, 2008).
  • Phone: 2028625838
    Email: mnovak@aei.org
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