Business ethics in-between general ethics and business practice

Even today there is no agreement as to the concept and definition of business ethics in science. Difficulties concerning its determination and defining have prompted numerous writers to start considering business ethics primarily as a set of moral rules that govern the conduct of people in business up to taking the position that business ethics is the study of business morals. The major flaw in the latter meaning of business ethics, as a study of business morals, is that it allows business ethics to be reduced to scientific study of morals rather than par excellence philosophical discipline, a kind of special, applied ethics that inquires into business morals as a set of one and the same rules governing the conduct of people in various areas of human activity, ranging from commerce (commercial ethics) to legal science (ethics of business and law). The wrong approach and understanding are principally the result of the myriad of pejorative meanings of business ethics created in the business world and in the public, especially when its name and concept are used uncritically and disparagingly. Notwithstanding difficulties relating to the determination of the true meaning of business ethics, still it is possible to determine it by relying largely on general ethics as a discipline of philosophy. Consequently, business ethics is a special applied ethics studying business morals as a set of moral rules that govern the conduct of people in the world of business. Out of this closely-knit relationship between general and business ethics emerges yet another important thing: ethical theories should be examined in parallel with the cases of their application. Otherwise, we would have to ask ourselves whether it is sufficient to use only common sense and moral judgment in the world of business in concrete business situations and what is the stance of the theory of ethics on this issue. In turn, it leads to yet another important conclusion: since even after several thousand of years of debate not a single understanding regarding moral has emerged so as to become universally accepted, the task of ethics as such is, therefore, to be expanded to solve the problem relating to the Even today there is no agreement as to the concept and definition of business ethics in science. Difficulties concerning its determination and defining have prompted numerous writers to start considering business ethics primarily as a set of moral rules that govern the conduct of people in business up to taking the position that business ethics is the study of business morals. The major flaw in the latter meaning of business ethics, as a study of business morals, is that it allows business ethics to be reduced to scientific study of morals rather than par excellence philosophical discipline, a kind of special, applied ethics that inquires into business morals as a set of one and the same rules governing the conduct of people in various areas of human activity, ranging from commerce (commercial ethics) to legal science (ethics of business and law). The wrong approach and understanding are principally the result of the myriad of pejorative meanings of business ethics created in the business world and in the public, especially when its name and concept are used uncritically and disparagingly. Notwithstanding difficulties relating to the determination of the true meaning of business ethics, still it is possible to determine it by relying largely on general ethics as a discipline of philosophy. Consequently, business ethics is a special applied ethics studying business morals as a set of moral rules that govern the conduct of people in the world of business. Out of this closely-knit relationship between general and business ethics emerges yet another important thing: ethical theories should be examined in parallel with the cases of their application. Otherwise, we would have to ask ourselves whether it is sufficient to use only common sense and moral judgment in the world of business in concrete business situations and what is the stance of the theory of ethics on this issue. In turn, it leads to yet another important conclusion: since even after several thousand of years of debate not a single understanding regarding moral has emerged so as to become universally accepted, the task of ethics as such is, therefore to be expanded to solve the problem relating to the.