Umpire and batsman: Is it cricket to be both?
The paper is a response to Richard De George's essay, ‘Theological Ethics and Business Ethics’. It defends the possibility of theologically oriented approaches to business ethics by pointing out certain deficiencies in business ethics narrowly based on the premisses of analytic moral philosophy...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
1986
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 1986, Volume: 5, Issue: 6, Pages: 445-451 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Business Ethic B Reflection B Iron B Economic Growth |
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| Summary: | The paper is a response to Richard De George's essay, ‘Theological Ethics and Business Ethics’. It defends the possibility of theologically oriented approaches to business ethics by pointing out certain deficiencies in business ethics narrowly based on the premisses of analytic moral philosophy. In particular it argues, in a manner consistent with Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981), that such a program of business ethics is insufficiently critical of its own roots in the “social fiction” of bureaucratic rationality. After showing how this ideology governs De George's negative judgments on theological approaches to business ethics, the author outlines a program of critical reflection that would draw from the intellectual traditions of both theology and philosophy in order to facilitate a dialogue in business ethics that no longer is captive in the “Iron Cage” of bureaucratic rationality. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF00380750 |