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By Peter Ulrich

ISBN-10: 0521877962

ISBN-13: 9780521877961

Integrative fiscal Ethics is a hugely unique paintings that progresses via a chain of rational and philosophical arguments to deal with foundational matters in regards to the courting among ethics and the industry economic climate. instead of accepting industry festival as a driving force of moral behaviour, the writer exhibits that glossy economies have to strengthen moral rules that consultant industry pageant, therefore relocating enterprise ethics into the nation-states of political concept and civic rationality. This e-book was once in its fourth version within the unique German in 2008, this English translation of Peter Ulrich's improvement of a clean integrative method of monetary ethics should be of curiosity to all students and complicated scholars of commercial ethics, economics, and social and political philosophy.

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This, in turn, largely determines what kinds of goods in the broadest sense of the concept are regarded as desirable (goods ethics, ethics of the good life). The highest good can be defined formally as happiness, in whatever way we perceive it in accordance with our projection of the good life. 32 Thus, when we sometimes feel ‘perfectly happy’ we would often like to perpetuate this state if we could. 33 What makes a good and happy life cannot be established in a generally valid way; it is a question of 29 30 31 The conceptual distinction between the nouns ‘morals’ and ‘ethos’ is also maintained by some philosophers in the use of the adjectives ‘moral’ and ‘ethical’, in particular by J.

See H. Ku¨ng, Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic (London: SCM/New York: Crossroad, 1991). For a further treatment, with impressive proofs for a growing awareness of the necessity for a global ethos, see his A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 5. Following I. Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (New York: Harper, 1960). The claims of a rational ethics can and should, in my opinion, be maintained – and here I am in obvious disagreement with Tugendhat, Vorlesungen, p.

147. 54 In harmony with the basic ideas of the enlightenment and of political-philosophical liberalism (in its unabbreviated form55), modern ethics searches for the multiplicity of legitimate value orientations in the unity of a ‘culture of reason’ (Kant). From the cultural-historical perspective (outlined above) the search for the ethical in the rational is in no way the expression of an ivory-towered academic rationalism remote from real life; on the contrary, it is the only practical chance for the pacification of a multicultural world which, in the absence of a minimal intercultural ‘world ethos’,56 is at all times threatened by the violent clash of uncompromisingly propagated and fundamentalistically dogmatized moral systems, as experience shows.

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