The Lives of Ethical Philosophers
Short lives of the philosophers whose arguments still structure business ethics — from Athens and Lu to Königsberg and Harvard.
- Socrates
- Aristotle
- Confucius
- Bentham & Mill
- Immanuel Kant
- John Rawls
- Thomas Aquinas
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One-line summaries
Aristotle: become the kind of person who chooses well. Kant: act only on rules you could will for everyone. Mill: count the consequences for everyone. Rawls: choose the rules before you know your seat. Confucius: get the relationships right.
Ideas in context
Each thinker wrote inside a crisis — Athenian defeat, the Warring States, industrialisation, postwar liberalism. The crisis explains the emphasis.
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