Relations of Virtue, the Pursuit of the Moral Community, and the Ends of Business

Richard M. Robinson
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Richard M. Robinson: State University of New York – Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia)

Chapter 7 in Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty, 2024, pp 125-144 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It is argued here that business firms can and do provide an incubator that enables the Aristotelian category of friendships of advantage to develop into friendships of virtue. This contradicts other literature that views acquaintances of utility as the business norm and expresses pessimism concerning more advanced virtuous development of friendship within the business firm. It is argued here, however, that this virtuous development is integral to the Kantian social aim of pursuing a moral community, an aim which declares the appropriate moral motivation for business, and that certainly should incorporate a role for developing virtuous relations as a component of that pursuit. An atmosphere that encourages the development of relations of virtue is feasible, exists in real business, and is optimal for the pursuit of moral business communities.

Keywords: Relations of virtue; Friendships of virtue; Friendships of advantage; Pursuit of a moral community; Unsocial sociability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63122-1_7

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