Practices, governance, and politics: : applying MacIntyre's ethics to business

• Autores: Matthew Sinnicks
• Localización: Business Ethics Quarterly, ISSN-e 2153-3326, Vol. 24, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 229-249
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper argues that attempts to apply Alasdair MacIntyre's positive moral theory to business ethics are problematic, due to the cognitive closure of MacIntyre's concept of a practice. I begin by outlining the notion of a practice, before turning to Moore's attempt to provide a MacIntyrean account of corporate governance. I argue that Moore's attempt is mismatched with MacIntyre's account of moral education. Because the notion of practices resists general application I go on to argue that a negative application, which focuses on regulation, is more plausible. Large-scale regulation, usually thought antithetical to MacIntyre's advocacy of small-scale politics, has the potential to facilitate practice-based work and reveals that MacIntyre's own work can be used against his pessimism about the modern order. Furthermore, the conception of regulation I defend can show us how management is more amenable to ethical understanding than MacIntyre's work is often taken to imply.