PP247 Chapter 4-2: Unit4Reading2CorporateRolesPersonalVirtuesAnAristoteleanApproachtoBusinessEthics
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Corporate roles, personal virtues: an aristotelian approach to business ethics. It is by no means clear what a theory in business ethics is supposed to look like or whether there is, as such, any theoretical enterprise. Possibility that the theory of business ethics is really the philosophy of economics, that is, economics as ethics, social-political philosophy with an emphasis on economic justice. The theories are incomplete, oblivious to the concrete business context and indifferent to the very particular roles that people play in business. Economists and economic theorists tend to look at systems and theories about systems, while ethicists tend to look at individual behaviour, its motives and consequences. A problem with business ethics is the scope and focus of the disciplines and the proper unit of study and discourse. Much of the work in business ethics centres around case studies .
