caa a22 4500 605483434 CHVBK 20210128100431.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2254-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2254-0 Avoiding the Separation Thesis While Maintaining a Positive/Normative Distinction [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew Abela, Ryan Shea] While many scholars agree that the "separation thesis” (Freeman in Bus Ethics Quart 4(4):409-421, 1994)—that business issues and ethical issues can be neatly compartmentalized—is harmful to business ethics scholarship and practice, they also conclude that eliminating it is either inadvisable because of the usefulness of the positive/normative distinction, or actually impossible. Based on an exploration of the fact/value dichotomy and the pragmatist and virtue theoretic responses to it, we develop an approach to eliminating the separation thesis that integrates "business” with "ethics” while still permitting a positive/normative distinction, which we call "ethics from observation.” Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Separation thesis nationallicence Virtue theory nationallicence Positive/normative distinction nationallicence Fact/value dichotomy nationallicence Abela Andrew School of Business & Economics, The Catholic University of America, 20064, Washington, DC, USA aut Shea Ryan School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 20064, Washington, DC, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 131/1(2015-09-01), 31-41 0167-4544 131:1<31 2015 131 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2254-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2254-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abela Andrew School of Business & Economics, The Catholic University of America, 20064, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shea Ryan School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 20064, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 131/1(2015-09-01), 31-41 0167-4544 131:1<31 2015 131 10551