Usage of Christian Social Ethics in Business

Business Ethics and Internal Social Criticism

The purpose of this paper is to present an understanding of business ethics based on a theory of intemal social criticism. Internal social criticism focuses on how members of a business organization debate the meanings of their shared traditions for the purpose of locating and correcting hypocrisy. Organizations have thick moral cultures that allow them to be self-governing moral communities. B...

Teleology, Utilitarianism, and Christian Ethics

T AIM of this essay is to clarify the models of moral thinking and doing called teleology and deontology, to gain understanding of utilitarianism as a subcategory of the former, and to explore the relation both to utilitarianism and to teleology in general of certain Christian "consequentialist" modes of moral argument. This purpose arises out of a general and considerable unclarity in recent e...

Moral argument and Christian ethics.

The Bible's Role in Christian Ethics*

Biblical scholars and Christian ethicists have in the past frequently had little contact with each other's work. The former have been content to limit their focus to historical questions; whereas the latter have usually spoken to contemporary moral issues either with minimal reference to Scripture or with little concern for the technical and historical questions of biblical scholarship. Meanwhi...

Principles of Preventing Fraud in Business from the Ethics Perspective

Background: The basics of preventing fraud in business are the commonalities of the two systems of ethics and law. The basics of this rule indicate the non-prescription and prevention of fraud. The principles at stake are for the protection of individuals' interests and property security, and even for the maintenance of order in society, and those who seek to exploit fraud for the greater benef...