Many of the ethics taught in business today derive from ancient philosophy. Immanuel Kant is one of the predominate philosophers that you will hear about in a business ethics class. Kant believed that pure reason could reveal the absolute universal truths of ethics. Much of today’s ethical facts are bound by reasons of what we feel may be right and wrong. There are still many questions as to what makes sense in business ethics because of what many humans are taught as children. Some even believe that ethical decisions derive from a genetic pattern. The foundation of ethics was built on the grounds of such philosophers like Immanuel Kant who did believe that there was a sense of conscience when using divine intervention in ethics. Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 and died in 1804. He never left East Prussia during his lifetime. Kant’s work was based on reason and its limits. His work includes Critique of Pure Reason, The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, and Critique of Practical Reason all written in the late 1700s and still used in business ethics today.
Bruce N. Waller. 2005. Consider Ethics-Theory, Readings, and Contemporary Issues. Person Education New York, NY. Chapter 2 p. 18-27
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