What is Business Ethics?

Abstract

Surely "business ethics" assumes that for some reason the ordinary llales of ethics do not apply to business. "Business ethics," in other words, is not "ethics" at all, as the term has commonly been used by Western philosophers and Western theologians. What is it then? p. 22 * Altogether, "business ethics" might well be called "ethical chic" rather than ethics-and indeed might be considered more a media event than philosophy or morals. But this discussion of the major approaches to ethics and of their concerns surely also shows that ethics has as much to say to the individual in our society of organizations as they ever had to say to the individual in earlier societies. They are just as important and just as needed nowadays. And they surely require hard and serious work. p.35