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Can a Businessman be Moral?

In: Ethical Economics

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  • M. R. Griffiths
  • J. R. Lucas

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Morality seems opposed to making a success of business, but it is not really so. There are moral arguments against worshipping money, and for some people it is right to give up riches, as it is for others to forgo other forms of worldly success, but, special cases and special considerations apart, it is better that people should flourish than that they should do without the good things of life. Arguments of morality are difficult to disentangle from arguments of enlightened self-interest, and seem even easier to ignore. They differ in not being limited in scope, and those who ignore them limit themselves in consequence.

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  • M. R. Griffiths & J. R. Lucas, 1996. "Can a Businessman be Moral?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ethical Economics, chapter 0, pages 206-219, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-38995-3_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230389953_13
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