ABSTRACT
This book outlines a philosophy of ethical organising that identifies the general organisational feature of the expansive social cooperation that is needed to address the sustainability imperative. Chapter 1 examines the realm of values and the role that human values play in ethical organising. Values are conceptualised as relational, dynamic, and constituted by meanings, and socially constructed in moral free spaces that are repositories for ethical resources, such as liberal value pluralism. When structured by the social architecture of meaningfulness and mutuality, moral free spaces are proliferated in life value organisations. Moral free spaces provide arenas for meaning-making that connects values, knowledge, and understanding, via positive narrative formations. These narratives are judged to be morally viable or unviable against the value of meaningfulness, which is incorporated practical reasoning needed for collective problem-solving using mutuality as an organising principle.
