In business ethics journals, Kant’s ethics is often portrayed as overly formalistic, devoid of substantial content, and …, offering to replace or complement Kant’s theory with their own. Before such efforts are undertaken, however, one should … recognize that Kant himself wrote a “virtue theory” (Tugendlehre), wherein he discussed the questions of character as well as …

current legal and social practices arose. To this end, I offer Kant’s own concept of status as a promising one because in Kant … ways. Once status is admitted as an alternative to property and contract, status may be extended beyond Kant’s domestic …

This article draws on the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant to explore whether a corporate ‘duty of beneficence’ to non … examines Kant’s distinction between ‘duties of right’ and ‘duties of virtue’ (the latter including the duty of beneficence) and …