Ideological Mindset and Meaninglessness: Developing an Anti-Totalizing Concern, or Moving from a Moral Worldview to a Post-Moral Worldview

In Worldviews, Ethics and Organizational Life. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 147-176 (2021)
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Abstract

The shift from a moral worldview to a post-moral worldview implies the development of anti-totalizing concern. The inexistence of Truth-itself relativizes the quest for happiness. Existential despair is then a possibility-to-be, particularly when we acknowledge the meaninglessness of all things, beings, events, and phenomena. The borders between Good and Evil are ever-changing. Organizational members who endorse a post-moral worldview could then justify their metaphysical revolt against meaninglessness (Albert Camus). Their self-transcendence processes could even be paradoxical since transcending oneself is strongly criticizing the all-encompassing meaninglessness. Organizational members are willing to participate in organizational activities and processes of exchanging truth-claims. Nonetheless, they always question all (organizationally driven) meanings, values, and beliefs. Their existential anxiety and despair represent an unsurpassable limit-situation of their own existence. Organizational members strongly oppose all forms of totalization since every totalization strengthens the existence of Truth-itself. Their ontic positioning is centered on the meaninglessness of their own existence. They know they live in a world of (unsurpassable) uncertainties, doubts, and contradictions since everything is meaningless.

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