Catholic Social Teaching as a Foundation for Business Ethics

Domènec Melé ()
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Domènec Melé: Holder of the Chair of Business Ethics

Chapter Chapter 7 in Philosophy and Business Ethics, 2022, pp 169-196 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Underlying Catholic Social Teaching (CST) there is an ethics, which, in turn, presupposes a certain epistemology and anthropology. This ethics differs from relativism, rationalism and emotivism. CST can be categorized as a “person-centered ethics”. Important elements of CST ethics include acting with personal and social love in truth—which encompasses the recognition of human dignity and universal fraternity—the fostering of integral human development (a development of the whole person and all persons), assuming transcendent moral norms, and taking the common good as a source of social legitimacy. The concept of “integral ecology” is also emphasized by CST. In a very synthetic way, this chapter summarizes a set of basic elements for futher developments of a CST-based Business Ethics.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97106-9_7

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