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Παναγιώτης Πανταζάκος, Καθηγητής μέλος ΔΕΠ, Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Παναγιώτης Αλεξάκης, Καθηγητής μέλος ΔΕΠ, Τμήμα Οικονομικών Επιστημών, ΕΚΠΑ
Μιχαήλ Κατσιμίτσης, Διδάκτωρ Φιλοσοφίας, Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Summary:
This paper attempts to examine the relationship between leadership and evil. Although not exclusively, leaders are privilegedly associated with evil. On the one hand, one of their main functions is to deliver a visionary discourse, via which they are forced to enter the moral space: leaders, as individuals who "think about how to magnify what is possible", have a broader sense of morality, precisely because they have a broader sense of possibility. On the other hand, the use of evil as a tool, is sometimes in the nature of being a good leader. Examining, on the one hand, the characteristics of the leadership phenomenon and, on the other, key elements of philosophical approaches to evil, we will try to show that the relationship between leadership and evil cannot be explained statically; it requires, on the contrary, that we take into account complex dynamics that develop systematically between leaders, followers and the context that surrounds them.
Keywords:
Leadership, Evil, Management, Administration
