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Global Business Practices: Kant and the Bhagavad Gita

Kant emphasizes the need for human freedom and discretion and the need to judge for yourself in religious and secular matters. Independence is necessary. However, Kant did not suggest a total rejection of authority. This is a common position for agnosticism. Kant suggests that it is necessary to reconstruct the ultimate reality by applying worldly categories to it. This is an attempt through the mind to create what Kant believes to be the real world. In this way, Kant attempted a synthesis between English empiricism and continental rationalism. The skeptic concludes that beliefs outside of human experience cannot be justified. On the other hand, rationalists claim that factual truths, what exists and what does not exist, can be established only by reason. Kant maintains that everything that is manifest is rationally justifiable and everything that is latter is rationally indefensible. The mind according to Kant conditions everything it encounters through its Forms of Intuition and Categories of Understanding.

Kant tries to draw a dividing line between what is an appearance and the ultimate reality, but in doing so he is a failure. To position between what is appearance and what is reality is to recognize that the ultimate reality is known. In other words, to draw a line you have to cross it first, which Kant categorically denies that he did.

Reason for obedience

To eliminate or substantially reduce the vice of greed through the orientation of corporate social responsibility, many theories have been proposed to enunciate the need for various criteria and even a code or institutionalization of ethics. This is all very well, however, one must recognize that these soft laws are quite different from the hard laws (ex criminal law, in Malaysia we have a Penal Code) that common people know well that in the case of the latter, such as one that if disobeyed results in punishment. There may even be provisions in such codes for punishment if the ethical codes are not obeyed, even if members of the public do not clearly see the need or reason for obeying those codes on a positive note (aside from the common fear of punishment), there would be no much progress in terms of improving social or moral values ​​in general. This is especially true when the enforcement of such codes, when disobeyed, is weak. One can even take the example of the failure to enforce strict laws in a situation of disobedience, as an example, that is, the example of riots and looting in other parts of the world, when the enforcement of the law by the police is slow. to arrive. by.

Simply put, a justification or reason (ethical reason) must be found for society to obey codes of conduct, especially in Malaysian society where common law or generally imposed law is of Western origin. Malaysia has undoubtedly developed its own law since the time of independence, but being a former colony of the United Kingdom and the fact that the adversarial judicial system here is an inheritance of English prowess, we cannot deny the fact that the legal culture and work ethic is western in origin. In the East, we often perceive this as a difficulty and a contrast to our Oriental upbringing, as English laws have a strong Judeo-Christian background. Muslims in Malaysia already have in their culture a strong need to obey moral codes, as a large number of laws (although sometimes still subject to common law when faced with serious crimes or crimes against the state) are laws of Syria and, therefore, strongly rooted in its moral and cultural background.

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