Chad Kleist's research while affiliated with Marquette University and other places

Publications (3)

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This paper will begin with an explication of the central tenets of Nussbaum's capabilities theory. The next section examines Nussabum's two-fold justification of capabilities; namely, the substantive good approach (or intuitionism), which serves as the primary justification, and a version of Kantian proceduralism, which provides ancillary support....
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This article will offer an alternative understanding of managerial decision-making drawing from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason rather than simply Being and Nothingness. I will begin with a brief explanation of Sartre’s account of freedom in Being and Nothingness. I will then show in the second section how Andrew West uses Sartre’s concepti...
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An inverse akratic act is one who believes X, all things considered, is the correct act, and yet performs ~X, where ~X is the correct act. A famous example of such a person is Huck Finn. He believes that he is wrong in helping Jim, and yet continues to do so. In this paper I investigate Huck’s nature to see why he performs such acts contrary to his...

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... Se realiza una deliberación conjunta sobre las capacidades necesarias para su máximo desarrollo en relación con sus características y circunstancias particulares (Hedge & MacKenzie, 2012). La participación de ambos agentes de la relación socioeducativa permite justificar las capacidades a desarrollar a través de un diálogo donde los deseos de las personas se tienen en cuenta y los interlocutores son evaluados por el otro, siendo menos probable una acción socioeducativa autoritaria e impuesta (Kleist, 2013). ...
... Scholars of ethical decision-making in business have built on existentialist themes and constructs to derive process models for decision-making (West, 2008) and have also argued for authenticity as an alternative criterion according to which a business person's character can be evaluated (Jackson, 2005). These contributions have been refined by incorporating a broader set of Sartre's oeuvre in order to delimit the extent of managerial responsibility implied by an existentialist view (Kleist, 2013). ...
... I see I was weakening; so I just gave up trying, and up and says -'He's white'. (Twain 1884: 99) 1 Other philosophers who have discussed AHF include Driver (2007), Fennell (2002), Gehrman (2018), Goldman (2010), Harris (1977), Kleist (2009), Lee (2009), Levy (2011), Markovits (2010), Montmarquet (2012), Rees (2006), Schinkel (2011), Taylor (2012), and Teichman (1975). Most philosophers who have discussed AHF regard Huck as morally admirable, all things considered. ...