Introduction The earlier works of modern Catholic social teaching understand the virtues primarily in terms of the moral obligations of the state, wealthy persons, and employers towards workers. For example, Leo XIII writes in Rerum Novarum about “a dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient than any bargain between...
Introduction: The Disparate Philosophical Traditions of Catholic Social Thought and Corporate Social Responsibility Questo studio appare anche in traduzione italiana nel volume: H. Alford e F. Compagnoni (edd). Fondare la responsabilità sociale d’impresa. Contributi dalle scienza umane e dal pensiero sociale cristiano, Città Nuova, Roma 2008 Catholic social...
The contemporary academic sub-discipline of business ethics is an inadequate corrective to unethical business practices, not only because the most popular theories of business ethics are based upon philosophical mistakes, but also because the entire enterprise of academic business ethics is fundamentally confused and doomed to irrelevance. Business ethics theory...
Among the virtues of Helen Alford and Michael Naughton’s Managing as if Faith Mattered is the central role that it assigns to the cardinal virtues. Furthermore, while most works in this field focus almost exclusively on justice, Alford and Naughton recognise and emphasise that possession of the first cardinal virtue,...
