J. S. Mill and the Art of Compromise

Córdoba, Rafael Cejudo

doi:10.2478/v10023-010-0032-x

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“…Mill was in favor despite that fact that it was just a half‐measure for radical democratic reformers. Certainly, a half‐measure may be even worse than anything, but Mill holds here that some half‐measures should be accepted when arisen out of a determinate kind of compromise (Thompson , Cejudo ). I shall capitalize on this neglected side of Mill's moral philosophy to devise some guidelines for ethical decision making in compromise situations.…”

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Decision making in compromise situations: guidelines based onJ.S.Mill's doctrine of political half‐measures

Córdoba

2014

Bus Ethics Eur Rev

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The purpose of this article is to offer guidelines to deal with hard choices, specifically in situations where some compromise among opposing values is inescapable. The guidelines are intended to help ethicists and practitioners to delineate different alternatives and to dismiss some of them as morally unacceptable. This article explores the view that compromises arise from negotiations but from ethical predicaments as well. For this reason, I distinguish between strategic and moral compromises. Both managers and employees are individual moral agents who have to confront the possibility of unpalatable and even disgusting compromises, so that they are forced to put their integrity into risk in certain compromise situations. However, I shall argue for the possibility of palatable moral compromises. The guidelines to cope with those situations and to identify the unpalatable compromises are based on J. S. Mill's moral philosophy. Mill suggested that half‐measures passed in Parliament must have certain key elements to be morally acceptable. I make use of this doctrine to put forward compromise guidelines in the form of a set of hallmarks, internal and external elements of palatable compromises. Two minicases are used to test the guidelines and to emphasize the importance of compromises for ethical decision making and commitment to company.

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Decision making in compromise situations: guidelines based onJ.S.Mill's doctrine of political half‐measures

Córdoba

2014

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“…The challenge of dealing with compromise touches on a range of deeply contested yet essential concepts in contemporary political philosophy (Gallie, 1956), such as the nature of politics and ethics. The ambivalent term "compromise" is increasingly used in two quite different senses (Cejudo, 2010) 1 .…”

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Compromise and/or Integrity? Some Normative Remarks

Magni

2023

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In a compromise parties make a strategic calculation that a sacrifice ofsome their commitments is the best tactic to advance their other values andinterests over their current positions. But if we try to figure a compromise as a wayto get to agreements that can minimize harm and promote mutual respect betweenindividuals, and could increase the level of cooperation between them, we canconsider a compromise shaped in that way as an agreement that can translate atits best some of the individual’s deliberative ideals, as fairness and mutual respect.This kind of compromise will be different from simple negotiation, and moredemanding to each one of the parties. It will require first and foremost a reciprocalrecognition of moral fairness. But can we ever compromise on matters of ethicalprinciple without compromising our integrity?

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No Compromise about Compromise

Fumurescu¹

2013

Compromise

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J. S. Mill and the Art of Compromise

Cited by 4 publications

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Decision making in compromise situations: guidelines based onJ.S.Mill's doctrine of political half‐measures

Decision making in compromise situations: guidelines based onJ.S.Mill's doctrine of political half‐measures

Compromise and/or Integrity? Some Normative Remarks

No Compromise about Compromise

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