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Patricia Werhane

DePaul University
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Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics
17th/18th Century Philosophy
  •  9
    Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics: The Callista Wicklander Lectures, DePaul University, 1991-2005
    with Keith W. Krasemann
    University Press of Amer. 2006.
    This collected volume of essays, the work of scholars from DePaul University who have served as the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics, focuses on a wide range of issues including the role of self-interest in commerce, moral character, evil and complacency, privacy, spiritual...
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    Notes
    The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics 127-128. 1999.
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    Promoting Business Ethics
    with Marilynn Fleckenstein, Mary Maury, and Patrick Primeaux
    Journal of Business Ethics 58 (1-3): 1-2. 2005.
    Business Ethics
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    Existence, Eternality, and the Ontological Argument
    Idealistic Studies 15 (1): 54-59. 1985.
    One way of phrasing St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument is as follows. One’s understanding of the idea of God can be formulated in a definition
    German Idealism
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    Moral Character and Moral Reasoning
    The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics 98-106. 1994.
    Ethics
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    The Role of Self-interest in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
    Journal of Philosophy 86 (11): 669-680. 1989.
    Adam Smith
  • Cutting-Edge Issues in Business Ethics (edited book)
    with Mollie Painter-Morland
    . 2008.
    Business Ethics, Misc
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    Introduction
    The Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 4-4. 1998.
    This special issue marks the first in a series of special issues of Business Ethics Quarterly that are sponsored by the Ruffin Foundation and the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia. The editors of Business Ethics Quarterly want to thank the Ruffin Foundation and the Olsson Foundation for their generosity in funding these issues for our subscribers at no extra cost.
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    Two ethical issues in mergers and acquisitions
    Journal of Business Ethics 7 (1-2). 1988.
    With the recent rash of mergers and friendly and unfriendly takeovers, two important issues have not received sufficient attention as questionable ethical practices. One has to do with the rights of employees affected in mergers and acquisitions and the second concerns the responsibilities of shareholders during these activities. Although employees are drastically affected by a merger or an acquisition because in almost every case a number of jobs are shifted or even eliminated, employees at all…Read more
    Business Ethics
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    Beyond Selfishness: Adam Smith and the Limits of the MarketAdam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism
    with Robert C. Solomon
    Business Ethics Quarterly 3 (4): 453-460. 1993.
    Business Ethics