Business ethics / A Kantian perspective A KANTIAN PERSPECTIVE

By:

Bowie, Norman

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: UK BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS 1998Description: 208p., 229 x 152mm, paperbackISBN:

0631211748

Subject(s):

Contents:

1. The Self-Defeating Nature of Immoral Business Practice. 2. Treating the Humanity of Stakeholders as Ends Rather Than as Means Merely. 3. Creating the Kingdom of Ends. 4. Acting from Duty: How Pure a Motive. 5. The Cosmopolitan Perspective.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book provides essential reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in business ethics today.

This text provides an introduction to business ethics. In so doing, the author applies features of Kantian moral philosophy to the business firm by addressing the question "How should a business firm in a capitalist economy be structured and managed according to the principles of Kant's ethics?"

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
1 The Self-Defeating Nature of Immoral Business Practice
2 Treating the Humanity of Stakeholders as Ends rather than as Means Merely
3 Creating the Kingdom of Ends
4 Acting from Duty: How Pure a Motive
5 The Cosmopolitan Perspective

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Norman E. Bowie is Elmer L. Anderson Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of fourteen books and over 50 articles on business ethics and political philosophy. He was a recent fellow in The Program in Ethics and Professions at Harvard University.