Theology in business ethics: Appealing to the religious imagination

By appealing to the religious imagination Theology can make a distinctive contribution to business ethics. In the first part of the essay I examine what is entailed by appealing to the imagination to reason in ethics: through converging arguments the imagination enables us rationally to interpret re...

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1. VerfasserIn: Magill, Gerard 1951- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1992
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 1992, Band: 11, Heft: 2, Seiten: 129-135
weitere Schlagwörter:B Final Part
B Business Ethic
B Ethical Inquiry
B Metaphor
B Economic Growth
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Zusammenfassung:By appealing to the religious imagination Theology can make a distinctive contribution to business ethics. In the first part of the essay I examine what is entailed by appealing to the imagination to reason in ethics: through converging arguments the imagination enables us rationally to interpret reality and to infer obligations. In the following sections I consider the relevance of the religious imagination for business ethics. In the second part I explain the imagination's use of religious metaphor to establish its theological distinctiveness in ethical inquiry. Then in the final part I illustrate Theology's contribution to business ethics by studying the imagination's use of religious metaphor with regard to profit and to third world debt.
ISSN:1573-0697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF00872320