Moral Education at Work: On the Scope of MacIntyre’s Concept of a Practice
论证麦金太尔的实践概念能克服适用范围问题，适用于商业伦理，通过实践概念的弹性容纳生产性和盈利活动，并指出将工作视为消费对象反而证明了其广泛适用性。
This paper seeks to show how MacIntyre’s concept of a practice can survive a series of ‘scope problems’ which threaten to render the concept inapplicable to business ethics. I begin by outlining MacIntyre’s concept of a practice before arguing that, despite an asymmetry between productive and non-productive practices, the elasticity of the concept of a practice allows us to accommodate productive and profitable activities. This elasticity of practices allows us to sidestep the problem of adjudicating between practitioners and non-practitioners as well as the problem of generic activities. I conclude by suggesting that the contemporary tendency to regard work as an object of consumption, rather than undermining MacIntyre’s account of practices, serves to demonstrate the potential breadth of its applicability.