Addressing Moral Confusion: Ethics Isn’t Law
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The Law
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Moral confusion in business ethics and corporate social responsibility often stems from treating ethics and law as if they were the same. Ethics and the law often overlap and sometimes conflict. They are distinct categories. Laws may enforce people’s ethical obligations. But they may also contravene them and require unethical action. Because the law has no independent moral authority, business people are always required to ask themselves whether compliance with the law is the right course of action. When the law prescribes oppressive or unjust conduct, they may have an ethical duty not to obey the law.
2011 ◽
Vol 20
(38)
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pp. 137-143
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2019 ◽
pp. 1562-1582
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2014 ◽
pp. 336-344
2021 ◽
pp. 229-245