The Moral Advantage

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5 Business Ethics That Come Naturally

Business ethics means a great deal more than obeying the civil law and not obeying the moral law. It means imagining and creating a new sort of world based on the principles of individual creativity, community, realism, and other virtues of enterprise.

MICHAEL NOVAK, Business as a Calling¹

Across the landscape of business education, from business schools to management training programs, essentially all moral concerns are handled under the rubric of “business ethics.” That phrase usually refers to the accepted codes and practices that we need to follow if we wish to stay out of trouble. I do not deny the importance of these codes and practices—they generally have a moral basis, they protect other people’s ...