1. The Oxymoron of Business Ethics
... own rules, we can self-legislate. Immanuel Kant distinguishes two types of imperatives in his theory. The first is the Categorical imperative and the other is the Hypothetical imperative. The Categorical imperative follows the idea "Act only in according with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law."3 For example, a politician is facing the dilemma whether to take a bribe or not ... is a hypothetical imperative, therefore it is not a moral according to Kant's ethics. The third ethical theory is Virtue ethics. It has originated from the ancie...
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