For-Profit Business as Civic Virtue |
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Authors: | Brennan Jason |
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Institution: | (1) Brown University, Box 2005, Providence, RI 02912, USA |
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Abstract: | According to the commonsense view of civic virtue, the places to exercise civic virtue are largely restricted to politics.
In this article, I argue for a more expansive view of civic virtue, and argue that one can exercise civic virtue equally well
through working for or running a for-profit business. I argue that this conclusion follows from four relatively uncontroversial
premises: (1) the consensus definition of “civic virtue”, (2) the standard, most popular theory of virtuous activity, (3)
a conception of the common good widely shared by liberal political philosophers, and (4) the mainstream economic theory of
for-profit business. |
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