The morality of belief in the profits of virtue

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ID4944873
AuthorsAriel Colonomos (0000-0003-3317-7366, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de Sciences Po, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume57
Issue185
Pages457-467
Publication date2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.00563.x
OpenAlexW2025586185
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

This article deals with a business ethic which requires multinationals to observe, in the countries in which they set up, the rules of justice, accountability, and human rights. This model rethinks the conception of corporate ethics, and the reasons for its propagation have to do with the transformation of international relations after the Cold War. Underpinning its development are the language games which the moral entrepreneurs decide to use, and finance is the social space in which the various elements of this communication link up. The present inquiry is both explanatory and normative in its aim. The text discusses the morality of "honesty pays", placing it in the context of the culturally and historically situated forms of utilitarianism that it espouses. The inquiry concludes by stressing the deeply religious character of its appeal, the effectiveness and validity of which rest on self-fulfilling prophecies

Accountability · Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Honesty · Morality · Normative · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Utilitarianism · Virtue · Global Economic and Social Development · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · War, Ethics, and Justification

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