How can we more formally define good and evil? My esteemed colleague Stanley Krippner PhD has suggested to me “that something is ‘good’ if it is life-potentiating and helps people manifest the potentials with which they entered this world. Something is ‘bad’ if it is life-depotentiating and blocks their potentials. Of course, culture plays a critical role and often what is ‘good’ in one culture...

We can distinguish the evil person in two ways. One is to pick out some trait, or narrow cluster of traits, and argue that individuals are evil if they possess those traits to a sufficiently extreme degree. Call theories that characterize evil in this manner extremity views. The second method takes evil to consist in being vicious, not just in one respect, but thoroughly or consistently. Call t...

Shadow IT is becoming increasingly important as digital work practices make it easier than ever for business units crafting their own IT solutions. Prior research on shadow IT systems has often used fixed accounts of good or evil: They have been celebrated as powerful drivers of innovation or demonized as lacking central governance. We introduce a method to IT managers and architects enabling a...

For a moral consequentialist, the connection between business ethics and quality of life is very close and direct. In general, moral philosophers may be divided into two very broad groups: deontologists and consequentialists. Deontologists hold that some human actions are inherently morally good or evil—for example, murder is inherently bad, whereas telling the truth is inherently good. Consequ...