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The Moral Background : an Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics / Gabriel Abend.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton studies in cultural sociologyPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:
  • 9781400850341
  • 1400850347
  • 1306452430
  • 9781306452434
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moral background.DDC classification:
  • 174/.4 23
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Contents:
The moral background -- Ethics as a business proposition -- Christian motives -- The good of American business -- The good of American society -- Standards of practice -- The Christian merchant.
Summary: In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists of three levels: moral and immoral behavior, or the behavioral level; moral understandings and norms, or the normative level; and the moral background, which includes what moral concepts exist in a society, what moral metho.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The moral background -- Ethics as a business proposition -- Christian motives -- The good of American business -- The good of American society -- Standards of practice -- The Christian merchant.

In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists of three levels: moral and immoral behavior, or the behavioral level; moral understandings and norms, or the normative level; and the moral background, which includes what moral concepts exist in a society, what moral metho.

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