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Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Organizational Ethics: A Response to Phillips and Margolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Edwin M. Hartman
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Abstract:

Phillips and Margolis argue that moral philosophy is a poor basis for business ethics, but their narrow view of moral philosophy would exclude Aristotle, for one. They criticize me for assimilating states and organizations in using the Rawlsian device, but they put too much faith in Rawls’s distinction between states and voluntary organizations and pay too little attention to the continuities between them. Their plea for a conceptually autonomous ethics for organizations I interpret as reasonable and largely compatible with my own stated opinion.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 673 - 685
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2001

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