A Role for Virtue Ethics in the Analysis of Business Practice
This article explores differences in the ways in which utilitarian, deontological and virtue/aretic ethics treat of act, outcome, and agent. I argue that virtue ethics offers important and distinctive insights into business practice, insights overlooked by utilitarian and deontological ethics.
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1995
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Business ethics quarterly
Year: 1995, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 533-539 |
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Summary: | This article explores differences in the ways in which utilitarian, deontological and virtue/aretic ethics treat of act, outcome, and agent. I argue that virtue ethics offers important and distinctive insights into business practice, insights overlooked by utilitarian and deontological ethics. |
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ISSN: | 2153-3326 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3857397 |