The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

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Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis and Alexei Marcoux

PART I The discipline of business ethics

  1    The history of business ethics

Bernard Mees

The “idol of origins”

Critics of capitalism

Business ethics becomes a field of study

  2    Theorists and philosophers on business ethics

George Bragues

Ancient and medieval suspicions of commerce

The modern approval of business

The late modern attack on business

The philosophic epoch of business ethics

  3    Theory and method in business ethics

Nicholas Capaldi

Hostility to business and business ethics

The philosophical background

The Enlightenment Project and contemporary ethics

Exploration: the “new” normative ...