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1. Introduction
2. Definition of business ethics
3. Business ethics in corporations
4. Goals
5. Philosophy is not a science
6. Philosophy vs. science
7. Virtue ethics
8. The debate on values
9. Communication and community
10. The idea behind virtue ethics
11. Virtue ethics and business ethics
12. Values in corporations
13. Virtue ethics in politics
14. Impact of communitarianism and libertarianism
15. Community vs. society
16. Seeing the company as a society
17. Seeing the company as a community
18. Bringing in more community into society
19. The difficulties of a community
20. Utilitarianism
21. The origins of conflict
22. Utilitarianism as an objective basis
23. Philosophical underpinning of utilitarianism
24. Increasing utility
25. The crucial aspect
26. Utilitarianism and teleological ethics
27. What to keep in mind about Utilitarianism
28. Deontology
29. What Kant teaches us
30. Explaining categorical imperatives
31. Kant's main categorical imperative
32. The corporate context
33. Adhering to Kant's philosophy
34. Summary: the three different versions of ethics
35. The different versions of ethics - an example
36. The different ethics in the example
37. The three versions of ethics continued
38. The ethics are based on reason
39. Business ethics nowadays
40. The emotional dimension of ethics
41. Ethics and morality (1)
42. Ethics and morality (2)
43. The balance between reason and emotion
44. Summary
45. Conclusion

Topics Covered

• Business ethics
• Oxymoronic language
• Philosophical ethics
• Utilitarianism
• Deontology
• Virtue ethics
• Ethics and reason
• Reason as calculation
• Reason as universalism
• Reason as talking
• Corporate codes as an instance of reasonable ethics
• Criticism of business ethics
• Ethics and emotion
• Ethics and embodiment

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Series:

• Managing Organizations

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Publication History

• Published on July 4, 2010