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Virtuous Billing, Nancy B. Rapoport, Randy D. Gordon
Virtuous Billing, Nancy B. Rapoport, Randy D. Gordon
Nancy B. Rapoport
Aristotle tells us, in his Nicomachean Ethics, that we become ethical by building good habits and we become unethical by building bad habits: “excellence of character results from habit, whence it has acquired its name (êthikê) by a slight modification of the word ethos (habit).” Excellence of character comes from following the right habits. Thinking of ethics as habit-forming may sound unusual to the modern mind, but not to Aristotle or the medieval thinkers who grew up in his long shadow. “Habit” in Greek is “ethos,” from which we get our modern word, “ethical.” In Latin, habits are moralis, which …
Ethical Frameworks, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Ethical Frameworks, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Corey A Ciocchetti
This article discusses the three prominent business ethics theories of Utilitarianism, Deontology and Virtue Ethics. This is a short primer on these theories.