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Socratic Ethics and the Challenge of Globalization

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  • Hartman, Edwin M.

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We have reached a rough moral consensus in the field of business ethics. We believe in capitalism with a safety net and enough regulation to deal with serious market imperfections. We favor autonomy for individuals and democracy for governments, though not necessarily for organizations. We recognize the rights of citizens and the different rights of employees. We respect a variety of possible sets of values, and so countenance a distinction between public and private. In other words, we are capitalists, pluralists, and liberals. But globalization will force us and businesspeople who share our views to deal with significant stakeholders who do not. The 21st century will see the accelerating pace of globalization. The great challenge for business ethics, for its philosophers and its scholars of business, will be to identify and advocate morality that takes adequate account of globalization, and that in so doing avoids untenable parochialism without falling into relativism.

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  • Hartman, Edwin M., 2000. "Socratic Ethics and the Challenge of Globalization," Business Ethics Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(1), pages 211-220, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buetqu:v:10:y:2000:i:01:p:211-220_00
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    1. Lindsay Thompson, 2010. "The Global Moral Compass for Business Leaders," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 93(1), pages 15-32, June.
    2. Santiago Mejia, 2022. "Socratic Ignorance and Business Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 175(3), pages 537-553, January.
    3. Geert Demuijnck, 2015. "Universal Values and Virtues in Management Versus Cross-Cultural Moral Relativism: An Educational Strategy to Clear the Ground for Business Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 128(4), pages 817-835, June.

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