Taking business ethics seriously : beyond "How much would you sell your mother for?" / by Santiago Ojeda Couchoud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Couchoud, Santiago Ojeda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Of what does the "good life" consist? What do we owe each other? How should we distribute the product of our joint effort? For modern rationality, each of those timeless questions can be answered separately, and different disciplines have evolved to deal with them. This book presents a forceful, passionate argument against such compartmentalization, tracing its origins to the demands of the socioeconomic system, born in Europe in the eighteenth century, which today rules the world. It makes the case for guiding our behavior in the professional realm by aligning it with the kind of life that it is worth living for creatures like us, and for treating other people in the conduct of business exactly the same as we should in any other realm. Such alignment requires a rigorous review of the most salient ethical traditions, from Classical Greece to the present day.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword

Section 1

Its Scope and Limitations

Definition of Ethics

Values

Selected Bibliography

Section 2

Why does it matter?

How were things back then?

How the Best Answered: The Classical Canon

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Epicureans, Stoics, Cynics

Section 3

How were things then? How did they come to be so?

The Main Figures of the Utilitarian Canon

Hutcheson, Hume, Smith

Bentham

Mill(s) and Sidgwick

Section 4

Why, in a landscape that produced utilitarianism, did some thinkers opt for different answers?

The Deontological Canon

Kant

The Hegelian Response

The Contractualist and Dialogic Update

Where Things Stand Now

Section 5

The Skeptical Canon

David Hume (again!)

Sympathy for Horses, not so much for Humans (Nietzsche)

Delegitimized Metanarratives (Postmodernism)

So where does all that leave us?

Section 6

The Organizational Problem and its (Dis)ingenuous Solution

A Sketch of how the Interests of Stakeholders may be Balanced

Employees vs. Owners

Employees vs. Consumers

Actual Employees vs. Potential Ones

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4095-2

OCLC:

1183031314