The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

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Part I

The discipline of business ethics

Focused on the ethics of commerce, business ethics (like other disciplines) has a history, theoretical tendencies, and preferred methods. The first two chapters in this section explore the history of business ethics and the way in which trade and commerce have featured in the thought of important philosophers. The next two chapters take up the current discipline of business ethics, both as a field of inquiry with particular theoretical assumptions and as field of pedagogy— business ethics in the classroom.

In the opening chapter, The history of business ethics, Bernard Mees delineates the broad history of business ethics, commencing from some of its oldest and most ancient sources and then considering ...