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The aim of this chapter is to outline the main tenets of the Robert C. Solomon’s modern virtue ethics. After a short explication of virtue ethics, I reconstruct the ideas of the “business- oriented” virtue theorist Robert C. Solomon and discuss how they advance a more humane understanding of the business world and how they help improve the often tense relationship between business and the rest of society
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Kirchengast, U. (2011). Solomon on the Role of Virtue Ethics in Business. In: Dierksmeier, C., Amann, W., von Kimakowitz, E., Spitzeck, H., Pirson, M. (eds) Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230314139_12
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