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Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Christoph Luetge

    1. Peter Löscher-Stiftungslehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

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  • Notable philosophers and economists examine the fundamentals of business ethics
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Table of contents (77 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Part 1 Aristotelian Foundations of Business Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Aristotelian Business Ethics: Core Concepts and Theoretical Foundations

      • George Bragues
      Pages 3-21

    3. Aristotle and Business: An Inescapable Tension

      • Colin D. Pearce
      Pages 23-43

    4. Aristotle and the Corporation

      • Alejo José G. Sison
      Pages 45-66

    5. Aristotle on Character Formation

      • Edwin Hartman
      Pages 67-88

    6. The Empirics of Virtue Theory: What Can Psychology Tell Us About Moral Character?

      • Miguel Alzola
      Pages 89-107

    7. Virtue as a Model of Business Ethics

      • Eugene Heath
      Pages 109-129

  3. Part 2 Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics: An Overview

      • Domènec Melé
      Pages 133-158

    3. Scholastic Business Ethics: Thomas Aquinas Versus William of Ockham

      • Claus Dierksmeier
      Pages 159-178

    4. Economic and Business Ethics in Select Italian Scholastics (ca. 1200–1450)

      • Martin Schlag
      Pages 179-205

    5. Business Ethics in the School of Salamanca

      • André Azevedo Alves, José Manuel Moreira
      Pages 207-225

    6. The Influence of Thomistic Thought in Contemporary Business Ethics

      • Helen Alford
      Pages 227-250

  4. Part 3 Morality and Self-Interest: From Hume and Smith to Contemporary Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
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    2. David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment

      • Gerhard Engel
      Pages 253-279

    3. Adam Smith on Morality and Self-Interest

      • Thomas Wells
      Pages 281-296

    4. Utilitarianism

      • Nikil Mukerji
      Pages 297-312

    5. Biological and Experimental Perspectives on Self-Interest: Reciprocal Altruism and Genetic Egoism

      • Hannes Rusch, Ulrich Frey
      Pages 313-335

  5. Part 4 Kantian and Hegelian Thoughts on Modern Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337
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About this book

The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics. Articles by notable philosophers and economists examine fundamental concepts, theories and questions of business ethics: Are morality and self-interest compatible? What is meant by a just price? What did the Scholastic philosophers think about business? The handbook will cover the entire philosophical basis of business ethics. Articles range from historical positions such as Aristotelianism, Kantianism and Marxism to systematic issues like justice, religious issues, rights and globalisation or gender. The book is intended as a reference work for academics, students (esp. graduate), and professionals.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Peter Löscher-Stiftungslehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

    Christoph Luetge

About the editor

Christoph Luetge studied economics and philosophy in Braunschweig, Paris, Goettingen and Berlin. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh (1997), research fellow at the University of California, San Diego (1998) and visiting professor at Venice International University (2003). After taking his PhD in philosophy in 1999, Luetge held a position as assistant professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Economics of the University of Munich from 1999 to 2007, where he also took his habilitation in 2005. He has been acting professor at Witten/Herdecke University (2007-2008) and at Braunschweig University of Technology (2008-2010). Since 2010, he holds the Peter Löscher Chair in Business Ethics at Technische Universität München. His main areas of interest are business ethics, general ethics, internet and computer ethics as well as philosophy of the social sciences and economics. His major publications include Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (co-editor, 2008), Was hält eine Gesellschaft zusammen? (2007, in German), an Introduction to Business Ethics (co-author, 2004, in German) as well as 10 other books and more than 80 articles.

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