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The Quest for Verticality: an Inquiry into the Infinite Nature of Self-Perfection

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If there is one question that has perplexed the best minds in every society, it is how to raise the individuals from their present state to a higher state of existence and perfection? The answers have been tried using different formulations in history: religious, scientific and political. The common factor in all these historical formulations was that they were designed in opposition to each other and therefore left many things unaccounted. The aim of this paper is to explore the idea of self-perfection as a continuous streak of infinite vertical ascension. The paper has elaborated the idea of ‘Verticality’, propounded by Peter Sloterdijk for looking in to the domains of self-perfection and the stages of vertical ascension. For our purpose, we have relied on the example of discipline of Management that has progressively theorized about different aspects and stages of existence.

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Titel: The Quest for Verticality: an Inquiry into the Infinite Nature of Self-Perfection
verfasst von: Prashant Kumar Singh
Publikationsdatum: 31.05.2020
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in: Philosophy of Management / Ausgabe 4/2020
Print ISSN: 1740-3812
Elektronische ISSN: 2052-9597
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-020-00137-x

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