Business Ethics A Kantian Perspective,9780631211730

Business Ethics A Kantian Perspective

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631211730
ISBN10: 063121173X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-01-26
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(176)
The Self-Defeating Nature of Immoral Business Practice
11(30)
Introduction
11(1)
Immoral Actions Are Based on Self-Defeating Maxims
12(2)
Inconsistency and Immorality
14(1)
Applications to Business
15(4)
It Seems Right in Theory But Does It Work in Practice?
19(5)
Objections to the Application of Kantian Ethics to Business
24(1)
Extending the Reach of Categorical Imperatives: Pragmatically Inconsistent Maxims
25(5)
Why Neither Being Trustworthy nor Not Trusting in Business Involves a Pragmatic Contradiction
30(7)
Transition to Chapter 2
37(4)
Treating the Humanity of Stakeholders as Ends Rather Than as Means Merely
41(41)
Introduction
41(2)
The Respect for Persons Principle
43(5)
Not Using Employees: Neither Coercion nor Deceit
48(6)
Business Practices That Reduce or Remove Coercion and Deception
54(6)
An Objection and Replies
60(3)
Positive Freedom and Meaningful Work: Respecting the Humanity in a Person
63(4)
Kant's Reflections on Work
67(4)
Meaningful Work and Contemporary Business
71(11)
The Firm as a Moral Community
82(38)
Introduction
82(1)
Viewing Organizations and Human Nature
83(4)
Creating the Kantian Moral Firm: The Kingdom of Ends Formulation of the Categorical Imperative
87(3)
The Principles of a Moral Firm
90(6)
Implications for Organizational Studies
96(24)
Acting from Duty: How Pure a Motive?
120(29)
Introduction
120(1)
Kant's Position on the Purity of Moral Motives
121(7)
Strategic Payoffs and Moral Motives
128(9)
Reasons and Emotions: A Brief Aside
137(1)
Multiple Moral Motives
138(11)
The Cosmopolitan Perspective
149(28)
Introduction
149(2)
The Morality of the Market
151(9)
International Business Can Contribute to World Peace, Universal Rights, and Democracy
160(6)
Objections and Replies
166(7)
Conclusion
173(4)
Bibliography 177(2)
Further Reading 179(1)
Index 180

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