The Current Crisis in American Morality: How Big Business Has Contributed to, and Ought to Address, the Crisis.

Title: The Current Crisis in American Morality: How Big Business Has Contributed to, and Ought to Address, the Crisis.
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The Current Crisis in American Morality: How Big Business Has Contributed to, and Ought to Address, the Crisis.

In this paper, I argue that several features of Big Business in the United States, and its influence on our society, have caused far too many Americans to stop thinking about what is morally right as they choose their actions. An ethical vacuum has been created that Big Business has been only too glad to fill with questionable values that Americans have absorbed without consciously embracing. The time is right, and the stakes have never …showed first 75 words of 5070 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 5070 total…fill with questionable values that Americans have absorbed without consciously embracing. The time is right, and the stakes have never been higher, for us to reflect on our values and change our thinking and behavior. Big Business and Philosophy each have important roles to play -- one because of the power it now has and the other because of the power it ought to have -- if we are to improve the moral climate in this country.

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