caa a22 4500 606237682 CHVBK 20210128101254.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9504-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9504-1 Dubbink Wim Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands aut A Moral Grounding of the Duty to Further Justice in Commercial Life [Elektronische Daten] [Wim Dubbink] This paper argues that economic agents, including corporations, have the duty to further justice, not just a duty merely to comply with laws and do their share. The duty to further justice is the requirement to assist in the establishment of just arrangements when they do not exist in society. The paper is grounded in liberal theory and draws heavily on one liberal theorist, Kant. We show that the duty to further justice must be interpreted as a duty of virtue that is owed. This means that the duty is not enforceable but that violating this duty is still wrong and not merely non-virtuous. Our analysis has consequences for the morality of commercial life. It is often suggested that the morality of the market is a special, restricted morality that is leaner than the morality that agents must acknowledge outside the market. If our analysis is correct, the duty to further justice cannot be exempted from market morality, even if it is agreed that this must be leaner than the morality outside commercial life. Our analysis also has direct consequences for John Ruggie's view on the responsibilities of (internationally operating) businesses. Ruggie has never explicitly acknowledged a duty on the part of business enterprises to further justice. If our analysis is correct, his view is contradictory in that it presupposes the normative validity of free market enterprise yet shrinks from taking into account the conditions of its possibility. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Duty to further justice nationallicence Ruggie framework nationallicence Business morality nationallicence Liberalism nationallicence Kant nationallicence Doctrine of right nationallicence Doctrine of virtue nationallicence Governance gap nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 27-45 1386-2820 18:1<27 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9504-1 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/s10677-014-9504-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dubbink Wim Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 27-45 1386-2820 18:1<27 2015 18 10677