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 | | Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective by Norman E. Bowie ISBN-10: 9780631211730 ISBN-10: 0-631-21173-X ISBN-13: 9780631211730 ISBN-13: 978-0-631-21173-0 Hardcover 1999-02-02 Wiley-Blackwell Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book provides essential reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in business ethics today. | ||
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Questionable Understanding of Kant Bowie clearly misunderstands Kant and turns him into an advocate of running a business by consensus, a misuse of Kant's concept of personal sovereignty and a misunderstanding of his ideas about property and commerce. He also does not adequately address the limitations of the categorical imperative, particularly the requirement of generalizing maxims, which leads to many odd moral rules...(e.g., never lie....not even to hide Jews from Nazis). For a better rendition of Kant, generally, and as applied to business and economics, specifically, see Michael Berumen's Do No Evil: Ethics with Applications to Economic Theory and Business. | ||
A fine book, not without some problems, but altogether good Deontology is quite promising for the field of business ethics, and this book serves as a good introduction. | ||
A Superlative Contribution to the Field of Business Ethics This a major new work in business ethics by one of the leaders in the field. Many people who write about business ethics tend to ignore the great traditions of ethics that should serve as the foundation for any work in applied ethics. Bucking this trend, Bowie applies Kantian moral principles to business and derives a series of well reasoned conclusions about the moral obligations of businesspersons. The work is noteworthy for its attention to recent Kant scholarship and for the clarity and accessibility of its writing. A superlative work. | ||