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What's So Special About A Special Ethics For Business?, Earl W. Spurgin Apr 2000

What's So Special About A Special Ethics For Business?, Earl W. Spurgin

Philosophy

In business ethics literature, debate over a special ethics generally has framed examination of the rules governing business. By constructing a dilemma faced by proponents of a special ethics, I argue that this framing is misguided. Proponents must adopt either an insular or a derivative conception. The former, the view that business is insulated from moral rules, is problematic because arguments used to support it force proponents to accept the idea that each aspect of life is insulated from moral rules. This idea, however, renders philosophically insignificant the claim that business has a special ethics. Proponents no longer make a …


Thomas P. Flint, Divine Providence: The Molinist Account, David P. Hunt Jan 2000

Thomas P. Flint, Divine Providence: The Molinist Account, David P. Hunt

Philosophy

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