Theology in Business Ethics: Appealing to the Religious Imagination

By appealing to the religious imagination Theology can make a distinctive contribution to business ethics. In the first part of the essay I examine what is entailed by appealing to the imagination to reason in ethics: through converging arguments the imagination enables us rationally to interpret re...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics 1992-02, Vol.11 (2), p.129-135
Main Author: Magill, Gerard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Business ethics
Christian ethics
Cognition & reasoning
Corporate responsibility
Discourse ethics
Epistemology
Ethical epistemology
Ethics
Logic
Moral character
Moral judgment
Morality
Perceptions
Philosophers
Philosophy
Religion
Religious ethics
Scientific ethics
Theology
Values
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Summary:By appealing to the religious imagination Theology can make a distinctive contribution to business ethics. In the first part of the essay I examine what is entailed by appealing to the imagination to reason in ethics: through converging arguments the imagination enables us rationally to interpret reality and to infer obligations. In the following sections I consider the relevance of the religious imagination for business ethics. In the second part I explain the imagination's use of religious metaphor to establish its theological distinctiveness in ethical inquiry. Then in the final part I illustrate Theology's contribution to business ethics by studying the imagination's use of religious metaphor with regard to profit and to third world debt.
ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1007/BF00872320