Abstract Business ethics can be regarded as a field dealing with corporate self-regulation it relates to the treatment of stakeholders. However, concern for stakeholders need not take corporate-centric perspective, shown by recent efforts (especially Singer in Bus Ethics Q 25(1):65–92, 2015) situate conduct within Rawls’ political theory. Although Rawls was largely mute on subject himself, his ...

The ideas of later Rawls (after 1993) and particularly his early period work (before the 70s 20th century), often become subject serious attention. In author’s view, this situation establishes stereotypical one-sided interpretations. However, objective attention to Rawls’ (the project naturalist ethics based on protestant basis, morality, which constitutes itself through fact perception others ...

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