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| Preface | |
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| Translator's note | |
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| Introduction: orientation in economic-ethical thinking | |
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| Fundamental concepts of modern ethics and the approach of integrative economic ethics | |
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| The phenomenon of human morality: the normative logic of interpersonal relations | |
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| The moral disposition as part of the conditio humana | |
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| Morals and ethos as two sides of lived morality | |
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| Modern ethics and the problem of relativism | |
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| The humanistic core of the moral principle: the normative logic of interpersonal relations | |
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| The developmental stages of moral consciousness | |
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| The moral point of view: philosophical developmental lines of rational ethics | |
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| The Golden Rule and the Judaeo-Christian commandment to love one's neighbour | |
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| The standpoint of the impartial spectator (Adam Smith) | |
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| The categorical imperative (Immanuel Kant) | |
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| The rule-utilitarian generalization criterion | |
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| Discourse ethics | |
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| Morality and economic rationality: integrative economic ethics as the rational ethics of economic activity | |
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| Economic ethics as applied ethics? | |
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| Economic ethics as normative economics? | |
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| The integrative approach: economic ethics as critical reflection on the foundations of economic reason | |
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| Reflections on the foundations of economic ethics I: a critique of economism | |
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| 'Inherent necessity' of competition? A critique of economic determinism | |
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| The origins of modern market economy: the calvinistic ethos as a context of motivation | |
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| The systemic character of modern market economy: the 'free' market as a coercive context | |
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| The partiality of inherent necessity and the economic-ethical problem of reasonable expectation | |
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| 'Morality' of the market? A critique of economic reductionism | |
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| Historical and doctrinal background I: the prestabilized harmony in the economic cosmos (classical period) | |
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| Historical and doctrinal background II: the utilitarian fiction of common good (early neoclassical period) | |
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| Methodological individualism and the normative logic of mutual advantage (pure economics) | |
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| Reflections on the foundations of economic ethics II: rational economic activity and the lifeworld | |
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| The question of meaning: economic activity and the good life | |
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| The elementary sense of economic activity: securing the means of human subsistence | |
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| The advanced meaning of economic activity: furthering the abundance of human life | |
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| The discovery of personal meaning under conditions of competitive self-assertion | |
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| The question of legitimation: economic activity and the just social life | |
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| Fundamental moral rights as the ethical-political basis of legitimation | |
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| The well-ordered society and the conditions of legitimate inequality: on John Rawls's principles of justice | |
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| Economic citizenship rights as the basis of real freedom for all | |
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| A topology of economic ethics: the 'sites' of morality in economic life | |
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| Economic citizen's ethics | |
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| The basic problem of civic ethics: liberal society and republican virtue | |
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| Deliberative politics: the public sphere as the site of economic citizens' shared responsibility | |
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| Professional and private life as sites of economic citizens' self-commitment | |
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| Regulatory ethics | |
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| The basic problem of regulatory ethics: market logic and 'vital policy' | |
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| Deliberative order politics: the market framework as a site of morality - whose morality? | |
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| The global question: competition of national market frameworks or supranational sites of regulatory morality? | |
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| Corporate ethics | |
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| The basic problem of corporate ethics: 'profit principle' and legitimate business activity | |
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| Instrumentalist, charitable, corrective or integrative corporate ethics? | |
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| Deliberative corporate policy-making: the 'stakeholder dialogue' as a site of business morality | |
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| Elements of an integrative ethical programme for corporations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of subjects | |
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| Index of names | |