Philosophical Analysis Of Corporate Ethics And Responsibility

My paper taken to be one aimed at the problem of business ethics is not reference to the general study of coping with the above problem from the view of social science,nor is the study of the text of introducing the theory of western contemporary meta-ethics.Instead,this paper that depends mainly upon the methodology of analytical philosophy can be viewed through a perspective of meta-ethics as the critical thinking about the moral responsibility of corporation which belongs to the field of applied ethics.The paper is different from the tradition of great narration,focusing upon the style of analytical philosophy,and being guided by the idea of trans-discipline and trans-school.That embodies in the following two dimensions.Firstly,one dimension,in the level of generally social science,explains and illuminates the concepts or conceptions of the moral responsibility of corporation,the corporate intention and the determinism of economic world through the theories of law,economics(including the philosophy of economic),the science of management and the study of financial marketing.In addition,another dimension,in the level of 'meta-',takes the perspective of the English speaking nation -philosophy of language(referring mainly to the semantics) and the philosophy of mind,metaphysics,German speaking nation --the ethics of responsibility and the Chinese Marxism to analyze and demonstrate the independently moral identity(or moral personality) of corporation and the moral responsibility of corporation from the view of free will.The structure of this paper can be divided into three parts.Firstly,it critically analyzes and re-constructs the contemporary accepted conception about the social responsibility of corporation and the moral responsibility of corporation through the way of meta-ethics.Meanwhile,this paper brings forward the two core elements of establishing the moral responsibility of corporation,which are argued respectively in the chapter 1 and chapter 2.In detail,the chapter one which focuses upon the popularly ambiguous definitions of the moral responsibility of corporation and the social responsibility of corporation, summarizes and evaluates the above definitions according to the view of identity and the view of difference,and understands the moral responsibility from the view of the ethics of responsibility.Meanwhile,this part clarifies the confusing of the daily use of the concept of moral responsibility and the concept of the duty, pointing further out the subjectivity which embodied in the concept of moral responsibility of corporation.The subjectivity is precisely the foundation of establishing the moral responsibility of corporation.The chapter two argues the independently moral identity(or moral personality) of corporation which can be viewed as the one of the core elements of establishing the moral responsibility of corporation through the theories of contemporary metaphysics,the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind.The chapter three,in the perspective of free will(including the theories of Marxism),explains the moral responsibility of the corporate agent in the determinism of economic world.