Can Business Be Ethical?

This is a matter of morality, security and enlightened self interest.

As moral creatures, we are driven to enforce justice.

The main uncertainty in life the destination of one s immortal soul nudges one toward morality.

Especially in the face of the financial crisis, religion has been presented as a source for what Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called the project of moralizing capitalism.

All is not sweetness and light, though morality is more than compassion and charity. As moral creatures, we are driven to enforce justice.

According to the Labour Code agricultural or commercial establishments, whether public or private, and individual employers are forbidden to use female employees for work that exceeds their strength or damages their moral character.

As there is not much space in such thinking for individual moral action, social critics are often ridiculed as naive moralists or elitists.

Leaving aside the lies, fictions, and questions of morality and personal responsibility, the critical mistake of America s war against Iraq was the absence of either a viable plan or the necessary strength to enforce a Pax Americana in the Middle East.

Despite the move toward more deontological themes by some, there continues to be an interest in virtue ethics in nursing ethics and some support for an ethic of care.

But, above all, politicians must stop trying to shore up their diminished credibility with the pretense of economic science.

This is not to say that all appeals to religion are just cynical election ploys. Especially in the face of the financial crisis, religion has been presented as a source for what Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called the project of moralizing capitalism.

These tools for keeping a New Year s resolution can help us to make progress, not only in losing weight or staying out of debt, but also in living more ethically.

If the absence of democracy in the Islamic world was the problem, bringing democracy to the Greater Middle East would be the solution, and it was the historical duty of the United States, as the most powerful and moral nation, to bring about that necessary change.

4. The members of the Committee shall be elected by States Parties, consideration being given to equitable geographical distribution, representation of the different forms of civilization and of the principal legal systems, balanced gender representation and participation of experts with disabilities.