Reframing “Morality Paysâ€\x9D: Toward a Better Answer to “Why be Moral?â€\x9D in Business

John Corvino ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2006, vol. 67, issue 1, 14 pages

Abstract: This paper revisits the “morality paysâ€\x9D approach to answering the “Why be moral?â€\x9D question in business. First I argue that “morality paysâ€\x9D is weakest when it needs to be strongest, and thus inadequate to the task. Then I examine and reject a proposed virtue-ethics alternative, arguing that it either collapses into “morality paysâ€\x9D or else introduces a new problem. After sketching an account of moral reasons, I go on to argue that “morality paysâ€\x9D can be reframed, not so much as an answer to “Why be moral,â€\x9D but as a prescription for reforming corporate institutions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006

Keywords: Why be moral?; ethics pays; morality pays; ethics; virtue ethics; moral reasons; moral motivation; Hosmer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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