Moral Education at Work: On the Scope of MacIntyre's Concept of a Practice

Sinnicks, Matthew (2019) Moral Education at Work: On the Scope of MacIntyre's Concept of a Practice. Journal of Business Ethics, 159 (1). pp. 105-118. ISSN 0167-4544

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Abstract

This paper seeks to show how MacIntyre’s concept of a practice can survive a series of ‘scope problems’ which threaten to render the concept inapplicable to business ethics. I begin by outlining MacIntyre’s concept of a practice before arguing that, despite an asymmetry between productive and non-productive practices, the elasticity of the concept of a practice allows us to accommodate productive and profitable activities. This elasticity of practices allows us to sidestep the problem of adjudicating between practitioners and non-practitioners as well as the problem of generic activities. I conclude by suggesting that the contemporary tendency to regard work as an object of consumption, rather than undermining MacIntyre’s account of practices, serves to demonstrate the potential breadth of its applicability.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: MacIntyre, virtue ethics, practices
Subjects: N100 Business studies
Department: Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User: Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited: 04 Dec 2017 10:20
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 22:02
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/32691

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