Classical ethics are universal in their claims to bind people, but the field of business ethics has been especially vulnerable to ethical relativism. Within the field of jurisprudence there has been an attempt to decouple law from ethics by arguing law has an inner morality divorceable from its...

The paper proposes a foundation for an orbital theory of accountability extending from negligent misstatement to consideration for the welfare of an unknowable posterity. Inner orbits of accountability are circumscribed by enforceable laws within any one jurisdiction. Middle orbits include...