The Applicable Western Ethical View?

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

Chapter 2 in Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty, 2024, pp 17-38 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Western ethical tradition is rooted in ancient Greek philosophy, which developed both intuitionism and virtue ethics. The enlightenment age developed social contract theory, utilitarianism, and ultimately Kantian construction. All of these schools (approaches) play a role in examining and developing the ethics of business interactions and what we should consider as ethical norms for business. It is, of course, questionable whether this “Western ethical thought” sufficiently permeates business so that what we term as “evil” in business is adequately avoided.

Keywords: Rational intuition; Greek intuitionism; Gorgias; Euthyphro; Eudaimonia; Western ethics; Plato; Socrates; Aristotle; Enlightenment; Aquinas; Hobbes; Hume; Kant; Natural law; Universal principle of justice; Market-oriented duty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63122-1_2

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