Table Of ContentEminent Voices in Business Ethics 51
Series Editors: Mollie Painter · Frank den Hond
Edwin M. Hartman
Arriving
Where We
Started
Aristotle and Business Ethics
Issues in Business Ethics
Eminent Voices in Business Ethics
Volume 51
Series Editors:
Mollie Painter, Nottingham Trent University Business School, Nottingham, UK
Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics, Department of Management &
Organization, Helsinki, Finland
Honorary Editors:
Patricia H. Werhane, Professor Emerita, Darden School University of Virginia and
Professor Emerita, DePaul University, USA
Brian Harvey, Wim Dubbink
Editorial Board:
Georges Enderle, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
Horst Steinmann, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Lu Xiaohe, Center for Business Ethic Studies, Shanghai, P.R. China
Daryl Koehn, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
Hiro Umezu, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Mita,
Minato-ku, Japan
Andreas Scherer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Campbell Jones, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Edwin M. Hartman
Arriving Where We Started
Aristotle and Business Ethics
Edwin M. Hartman
Stern School, New York University
Oracle, AZ, USA
ISSN 0925-6733 ISSN 2215-1680 (electronic)
Issues in Business Ethics
Eminent Voices in Business Ethics
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And the end of all our exploring
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And know the place for the first time.
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Four Quartets
To Mary Hartman and Sam Hartman
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Key Terms
Aristotle
Autonomy (see free will)
Character
Commons
Community
Corporate culture
Desires, second-order
Dialectic (see reflective equilibrium)
Economics
Emotion
Enlightenment
Environment
Essence
Eudaimonia (happiness, flourishing)
Form
Framing (see moral imagination, perceiving)
Free will (see autonomy)
Friendship
Habit
Interests
Intuition
Leadership
Liberalism
Matter
Mean
Mediating institution
Modern vs. traditional views of ethics
Organization theory
Perceiving
Pleasure
Polis
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