Fernando's Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition

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Part 1

 Business Ethics

The choice of any act is necessarily the choice, not merely of a concrete exterior action,

but also of its essential moral nature, which is determined by its moral object. The choice of

any act is the choice of the action, and, at least implicitly, also a choice of its moral nature

and its moral object. The moral object is, in a sense, within the nature of the act, since the act

is ordered toward that end by its nature. When the moral object is evil, the knowing choice

of any act ordered toward that evil moral object is always objectively a sin. By choosing a

morally-disordered type of act, you are, at least implicitly, ...