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I suspect copyvio here.
http://www.e-paranoids.com/p/ph/philosophy_of_business.html
I'm glad to learn that. Thanks. -- Christofurio 21:58, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
Some of the stuff dealing with property was moved from business ethics, material I was also involved with writing. The editors there, mostly business types, I suspect, rather than philosophy types, probably did not realize the centrality of the nature of a business as principally being private property or a social arrangement to business ethics. So be it. Some of this material is redundant, though some is not and is germane here, too, so I'll begin the process of incorporating it. icut4u
I think I see where we differ. I maintain that business ethics is fundamentally a philosophical matter, albeit a normative one, as opposed to, say, a business practices or management matter, though each might address the application of ethical principles. However, the former considers it from a philosophical perspective, which would include the nature of a business, which clearly involves defining property and the bundle of rights and obligations that attend it. The leading business ethicists with whom I am familiar are also philosophers, and they usually treat the nature of property extensively in their writing....on business ethics. If you refer to the several leading business ethics journals, you will find property is an important topic; I therefore believe reference to its importance belongs in an encyclopedia article on business ethics. The philosophy of business is a broader topic, I think, but certainly, as you point out, the two have a relationship.
Here's the specific relationship of property to ethics: when, if ever, do I have the right to tell a business owner how to dispose of his property because I have an interest in it as an employee, as a consumer, or as a member of the community? If a business is believed to be constituted along the lines of a stakeholder arrangement, or as a social compact, as some philosophers do believe, the answers to these questions, and the descriptions of the corresponding duties of the property owner, differ materially from those pertaining to other kinds of conceptions about the nature of property. You bring up a good point, however, and that is that the previous entry was too theoretical and did not make the relationship clear. I no longer work on that page, so I will leave it to you or someone else to consider whether its worth developing. Finally, I think your recent contributions on this article are quite good. icut4u
I hope the author is planning a book on this topic because none exists and one should. Rpjr ( talk) 13:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Unless the word philosophy is being used in such a wide sense so as to be meaningless I cannot see how Peter Drucker can be described as a philosopher. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alnpete ( talk • contribs) 11:48, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
This is an important topic.
But it really doesn't scratch the surface.
I'd like to see coverage of things like:
Lauchlanmack ( talk) 01:57, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
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I suspect copyvio here.
http://www.e-paranoids.com/p/ph/philosophy_of_business.html
I'm glad to learn that. Thanks. -- Christofurio 21:58, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
Some of the stuff dealing with property was moved from business ethics, material I was also involved with writing. The editors there, mostly business types, I suspect, rather than philosophy types, probably did not realize the centrality of the nature of a business as principally being private property or a social arrangement to business ethics. So be it. Some of this material is redundant, though some is not and is germane here, too, so I'll begin the process of incorporating it. icut4u
I think I see where we differ. I maintain that business ethics is fundamentally a philosophical matter, albeit a normative one, as opposed to, say, a business practices or management matter, though each might address the application of ethical principles. However, the former considers it from a philosophical perspective, which would include the nature of a business, which clearly involves defining property and the bundle of rights and obligations that attend it. The leading business ethicists with whom I am familiar are also philosophers, and they usually treat the nature of property extensively in their writing....on business ethics. If you refer to the several leading business ethics journals, you will find property is an important topic; I therefore believe reference to its importance belongs in an encyclopedia article on business ethics. The philosophy of business is a broader topic, I think, but certainly, as you point out, the two have a relationship.
Here's the specific relationship of property to ethics: when, if ever, do I have the right to tell a business owner how to dispose of his property because I have an interest in it as an employee, as a consumer, or as a member of the community? If a business is believed to be constituted along the lines of a stakeholder arrangement, or as a social compact, as some philosophers do believe, the answers to these questions, and the descriptions of the corresponding duties of the property owner, differ materially from those pertaining to other kinds of conceptions about the nature of property. You bring up a good point, however, and that is that the previous entry was too theoretical and did not make the relationship clear. I no longer work on that page, so I will leave it to you or someone else to consider whether its worth developing. Finally, I think your recent contributions on this article are quite good. icut4u
I hope the author is planning a book on this topic because none exists and one should. Rpjr ( talk) 13:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Unless the word philosophy is being used in such a wide sense so as to be meaningless I cannot see how Peter Drucker can be described as a philosopher. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alnpete ( talk • contribs) 11:48, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
This is an important topic.
But it really doesn't scratch the surface.
I'd like to see coverage of things like:
Lauchlanmack ( talk) 01:57, 7 December 2019 (UTC)