The New (Old) Case for the Ethics of Business
In this paper, I argue for the ethics of business based on the way that business activity may embody a vocation to partake in “the Good.” Following a Platonist framework for ethics and recent work on vocations by Robert M. Adams, I argue that understanding the ethics of vocations allows us to avoid...
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2015
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 132, Issue: 1, Pages: 127-146 |
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Deirdre McCloskey
B Well-being B Aquinas B Robert M. Adams B Plato B Vocations B Michael Novak B Dilemmas B Virtue Ethics B Consequentialism B Aristotle |
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