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Virtue and Role: Reflections on the Social Nature of Morality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Lisa Newton
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Abstract

Robert Solomon has usefully set forth the outlines of an ontology of ethics for the employee. I seize upon three of the insights in his paper—specifically, relating to employee role, social nature, and virtue— and develop them along Aristotelean lines, showing along the way how classic “dilemmas” of the business ethics literature can be recast as problems of employee character and virtue.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 357 - 365
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1992

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Notes

1 I owe this point to Stephen Toulmin's account of the operations of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. See “The Tyranny of Principles,” Hastings Center Report II (December 1981) (6): pp. 31–39.Google Scholar

2 See my “Applied Ethics: Premises and Promises of a New Discipline,” Philosophy in Context, vol. 18 (1988), pp. 9–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, articles 1 and 4 (1105a-b), tr. Ostwald, Library of Liberal Arts (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962), p. 39.

4 See Max, Weber, Theory of Social and Economic Organization, tr. Henderson and Parsons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1947).Google Scholar

5 Aristotle, Politics, Book I Chapter 2, 1253a, tr. T. A. Sinclaire (New York: Penguin Books, rev. ed. 1981), p. 59.

6 Politics, 1253a, op. cit., p. 60.

7 Ibid.

8 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, I. 7. 1098a (tr. Ostwald, pp. 17-18).