Imperfect Duties and Corporate Philanthropy: A Kantian Approach
Nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in society. Unfortunately, many such organizations are chronically underfunded and struggle to meet their objectives. These facts have significant implications for corporate philanthropy and Kant’s notion of imperfect duties. Under the concept of imperfect...
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 106, Issue: 3, Pages: 367-381 |
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B Beneficence B Immanuel Kant B Imperfect duties B Corporate Philanthropy |
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