ARBUS202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Omelette, Moral Reasoning, Fiduciary
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The term dirty hands is borrowed from political theory and relates to the ethics of role and the doing of what is necessary, even morally necessary, to fulfill that role. Everyone wants to be ethical or at least to appear to be ethical, but as. Machiavelli shows in his quote, such an aspiration can be self-indulgent in a bad world. People are ethical in this private sense while at work is to fail to notice the changed environment. In business, ethics seems to be an option that is not always available. Carr and friedman would reply that business is about winning, about making profits, and therefore any legal means to this end are fair. Altruism belongs in people"s private life, and there is no inconsistency between managers who are both tough at work and sensitive and caring at home. John ladd distinguishes personal actions from social actions. Peter heckman points out organizations can never do the wrong thing on.
