The Moral Psychology of Business
本文探讨企业作为社群的核心美德,即关怀与同情,区分二者及它们与规则导向伦理观的不同,强调道德心理学关注恐惧、爱、忠诚等具体情感,对商业伦理研究者和实践者理解人性化伦理有启发。
The virtue of moral psychology is that it emphasizes what is most human in business, as opposed to the more bloodless concepts of “obligation,” “duty,” “responsibility” and rights.” The heart of moral psychology is to be found in such concrete phenomena as fear, love, affection, antipathy, loyalty, jealousy, anger, resentment, avarice, ambition, pride, and cowardice. In this essay, I want to explore two of the core virtues of the corporation, conceived of as a community, the “sentiments” of care and compassion. These were taken to be the very core of ethics by Adam Smith. I want to distinguish care and compassion from each other and both from the more principled and rule-bound conceptions of ethics that still dominate philosophy.