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Introduction: The Purpose of This Book | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Support for Instructors and Students | |
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The Business of Ethics: Reasoning about Right and Wrong | |
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A famous ethical dilemma | |
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Amoralism | |
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Ethical subjectivism | |
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Doing moral reasoning | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Two Extreme Views: Managing for Shareholders or Stakeholders? | |
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The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits | |
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Medicine for the people | |
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Managing for "stakeholders" | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Doing One's Job Well: The Ethics of Social Roles | |
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Ethics as playing one's role well | |
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Goodness, practices, and the virtues | |
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An Aristotelian approach to business ethics | |
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Business life and its telos | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Roles and Conventions: Confronting Cultural Conflicts | |
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Conventionalism | |
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The relativist error | |
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The limits of role-based ethics | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Ethics as Efficiency: Making Everyone Better Off | |
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Consequentialist ethics | |
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Utilitarianism | |
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"Efficiency" and the Pareto criterion | |
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Act- and rule-consequentialism | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Is Greed Good? Advancing Society through Selfish Action | |
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As if by an invisible hand | |
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Why the empirical premise is often false | |
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Why the moral premise is false | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Consequentialist Complications: Sacrificing One for the Many | |
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A trolley problem and a hospital case: two difficulties for utilitarianism | |
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Fairness and welfarist consequentialism | |
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Negative responsibility: Doing versus allowing | |
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Directed obligations | |
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Consequentialist retorts | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Self-Evident Truths? Imagining a World without Rights | |
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Self-evident truths? | |
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A world without rights | |
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Taxonomy of rights | |
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Examples of rights | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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The Case for Rights: Justifying Right-Claims | |
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Relativism again: The Asian values debate | |
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Rights or "rights"? | |
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Rights, dignity, and consent | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Ethics as Equal Freedom: Respecting Each Person's Dignity | |
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The source of moral worth | |
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Universalization as a source of duties | |
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Autonomy as a source of rights | |
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The Kantian company | |
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The Kantian firm in the marketplace: Revisiting deception | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Fair Shares: Dividing the Value Added | |
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A particular right-claim: fairness and executive compensation | |
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The problem of "deservingness" | |
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Utilitarianism as a theory of justice | |
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Entitlements: Nozickian libertarianism | |
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Just and unjust inequalities: Rawlsian social contract theory | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Just Business: Fulfilling Social Contracts | |
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A social contract theory of business ethics | |
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Rights revisited: Shareholders versus stakeholders | |
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Relativism revisited: Social conventions and moral free space | |
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Partial compliance theory | |
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Conclusion | |
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Summary of the Argument in This Chapter | |
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Appendix: Suggestions for Supplementary Material | |
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Index | |