Corporations, minors, and other innocents — A reply to R. E. Ewin
R. E. Ewin has argued that corporations are moral persons, but Ewin describes them as being unable to think or to act in virtuous and vicious ways. Ewin thinks that their impoverished emotional life would not allow them to act in these ways. In this brief essay I want to challenge the idea that corp...
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| Language: | English |
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1994
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 1994, Volume: 13, Issue: 10, Pages: 761-774 |
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Corporate Manager
B Logical Relationship B Corporate Action B Food Plant B Economic Growth |
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