Adam Smith’s version of Virtue Ethics can be traced directly back to Plato (Socrates) and Aristotle. Smith basically … have been looked upon kindly by the Scottish Presbyterian Church, of which Smith was a nominal member. Virtue Ethics, as a … system of ethics, is completely independent of the issue of whether or not there is a personal God or of any religion …

In the field of business ethics, Adam Smith has generally been viewed with a measure of suspicion. Smith's famous … market sceptics of business ethics. Little has thus far been done, however, to illustrate that Smith's moral writings … actually contain the fundamentals of a business ethics teaching. This paper analyzes his moral thought with a view to inferring …