Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics
This textbook by Eugene Heath addresses the moral aspects of doing business and connects them to the global history of ethics. The authors analyze how ideas from foundational thinkers—from Aristotle to Friedrich Hayek and Amartya Sen—are relevant to topics such as wealth, trade, and markets. In doing so, they fill a gap in the field of business ethics.
The book highlights a range of perspectives, including classical Chinese and medieval Islamic philosophy, and often brings overlooked insights back into the debate. This lays a broad and in-depth foundation for better understanding current ethical issues in business.
Description
Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics examines the moral dimensions of business conduct, from environmental issues to unfair trading practices and government contracts. The book maps misunderstandings and tensions within business ethics and shows new approaches to complex ethical problems. It thus provides a solid basis for ethical reflection, independent of current opinions and trends.
Product specifications
- Author: Eugene Heath
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- Publication date: 2017-06-02
- Number of pages: 464
- ISBN: 9780226443850
- Topic: Ethics and moral philosophy
- BISAC: PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
About the author
Eugene Heath is a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, New Paltz, and the author of multiple works on morality and the market. Byron Kaldis is dean and professor of European philosophy at the Hellenic Open University, Greece, and editor of the Sage Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences.