Useful Friendships: A Foundation for Business Ethics  

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Sommers, Mary Catherine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Business Ethics vol. 16 no. 12-13 (Sep. 1997), page 1453-1458.
Topik: Advantage; Character; Friendship; Good Will; Virtue

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: BB27.30 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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"Friendship", for Aristotle, is a term with "focal meaning" which denominates relationships as casual as "fellow travelers on a voyage", as permanent as spouses, and whose motives are as various as the commercial, military, religious, sexual, political and the virtuous. What canb e said of all these relationships is that they involve a solidarity, a concordat, a reciprocity, which has its foundation in a common field between the parties and which produces common actions or exchanges. All friendships tend to equality in the sense that they do not insist on 'what is due' as an ultimate end; friendship, like equity, surpasses justice int he fulfillment of what is owed. Because friendship fosters solidarity and justice it is politically important as a virtue-context, according to Aristotle. Is it possible that friendship can fucntion as a virtue-context within economic life as well? Aristotle's notion of a type of useful friendship which functions through expectation of moral behavior will be shown to provide both motive and context for the performance of acts of virtue in a business setting.

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