When two ‘wrongs’ make a right: An essay on business ethics

Gregory S. Kavka

DOI:10.1007/BF00382714

Corpus ID: 144639675

When two ‘wrongs’ make a right: An essay on business ethics

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  title={When two ‘wrongs’ make a right: An essay on business ethics},
  author={Gregory S. Kavka},
  journal={Journal of Business Ethics},
  year={1983},
  volume={2},
  pages={61-66}
}

Gregory S. Kavka

Published 1983

Economics

Journal of Business Ethics

Sometimes two wrongs do make a right. That is, others' violations of moral rules may make it permissible for one to also violate these rules, to avoid being unfairly disadvantaged. This claim, originally advanced by Hobbes, is applied to three cases in business. It is suggested that the claim is one source of scepticism concerning business ethics. I argue, however, that the conditions under which business competitors' violations of moral rules would render one's own violations permissible are… CONTINUE READING

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