"A robust account of the virtues, such as the one offered by Aristotle,requires clearly identifiable goods connected with the norms and practicesof human beings who identify themselves as members of communities that areculturally and historically situated. [....] Instead of taking as starting points theprinciples of an abstract, universal reason and the freedom of theindividual, virtue ethics thrives on and is nourished by tradition. [.....]In the past three decades we have seen a revival of virtue ethics and theidea of the common good in largely academic philosophical discussions.Perhaps the time has come to extend the debate, pioneered among others bythe late Robert Solomon, to the theory and practice of business ethics today. [...] What is the common good of a business? How does it relate to the common goodof society? [...] Do the virtues provide a basis for alternative paradigms of corporatesuccess, or alternative measures of social capital? "
No.
NO.
No, no, no.
Just say NO.
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