caa a22 4500 605486255 CHVBK 20210128100444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2314-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2314-5 Wolcott Gregory Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut The New (Old) Case for the Ethics of Business [Elektronische Daten] [Gregory Wolcott] In this paper, I argue for the ethics of business based on the way that business activity may embody a vocation to partake in "the Good.” Following a Platonist framework for ethics and recent work on vocations by Robert M. Adams, I argue that understanding the ethics of vocations allows us to avoid the charges that business persons have to do something more for others—often couched in terms of social responsibility, sustainability, or consideration of stakeholders—in order to legitimize their careers ethically. Rather, I claim, the ethics of a business vocation, as in any vocation, rests first and foremost in the way that a person pursues projects that answer an invitation to partake in the good things of this world. Thus, the promotion of the well-being of others, while ethically admirable and constitutive of some vocations, is not fundamental for understanding the ethics of vocations themselves, even in business. There are important implications for the ethics of markets, and I also consider a recent challenge to my approach that claims that true business vocations demand a more direct promotion of the well-being of others. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Virtue ethics nationallicence Vocations nationallicence Consequentialism nationallicence Robert M. Adams nationallicence Deirdre McCloskey nationallicence Michael Novak nationallicence Well-being nationallicence Plato nationallicence Aristotle nationallicence Aquinas nationallicence Dilemmas nationallicence Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 132/1(2015-11-01), 127-146 0167-4544 132:1<127 2015 132 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2314-5 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/s10551-014-2314-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wolcott Gregory Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 132/1(2015-11-01), 127-146 0167-4544 132:1<127 2015 132 10551