ABSTRACT

Chapter 9 explains the ethical concepts of Stewardship. It resolves the relational dialectic of prioritizing the Good versus prioritizing the Right as normative structure through reverent interconnectivity; the process dialectic of utilizing external or internal criteria for ethical motivation is resolved with the creation of emergent principles through the method of integration. Stewardship is a motivation, an attitude, and an act of both deciding and doing that demands the ethical actor to be mutually caring and respectful, as well as mutually responsible and answerable.