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Kant’s Humanist Business Ethics
Dierksmeier, Claus
Dierksmeier, Claus
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In this article I investigate how Kant‟s philosophy contributes universalistic arguments in favor of a humanistic ethics. Kant moved the idea of freedom to the center of his philosophy, arguing that from a reflection on the nature of human freedom a self-critical assessment of its morally appropriate use could be gleaned. Therein, that is, in construing his ethics from (subjective) self-reflection rather than resting it on presumed (objective) values, and in construing norms of interpersonal validity from the individual perspective („bottom-up‟) rather than through („topdown‟) references to prearranged ethical or metaphysical orders, lies Kant‟s innovation in ethics theory.
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