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This book reveals Marx's moral philosophy and analyzes its nature. The book begins by discussing the methodological side of Marx's ethics showing how Marx's criticism of conventional morality and his views on historical materialism, determinism and ideology are compatible with having an ideological system of his own.

This book examines the underlying theoretical issues concerning the nature of political freedom. Arguing that most previous discussions of such freedom have been too narrowly focused, it explores both conservativism from Edmund Burke to its present resurgence, the radical tradition of Karl Marx, as well as the orthodox liberal model of freedom of John Locke, John Stuart Mill and Isaiah Berlin. Political Freedom argues that these three accounts of political freedom - conservative, liberal and radical - all have internal weaknesses which render them unsatisfactory.In the second part of the book

This book reveals Marx's moral philosophy and analyzes its nature. The author shows that there is an underlying system of ethics which runs the length and breadth of Marx's thought. The book begins by discussing the methodological side of Marx's ethics showing how Marx's criticism of conventional morality and his views on historical materialism, determinism and ideology are compatible with having an ideological system of his own. In the light of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy the insights and defects of Marx's major ethical themes are discussed

ABSTRACTControl over information is essential to business. This has become increasingly true in an era in which technological advances have enabled the rapid globalization of business. This article explores the implications of this control of information for freedom of speech and information. Four different situations are considered: censorship of the Internet by search engines albeit at the direction of a government; restrictions on Internet content by Internet Services Providers acting on their own; decisions by retail businesses not to sell various DVDs, CDs, etc. to their customers; and legal suits brought against individuals and groups by businesses seeking to prevent the further spread of information they deem injurious to their products or activities. The paper seeks to sort out the various rights and values involved in these cases, when a business may be justifiably said to be violating individuals' rights to freedom of information, and when customers and citizens do not have justified complaints against business decisions not to provide them with certain information products.

The nature of Marx's opposition to private property is problematic; Marx's theory of ideology precludes direct moral criticism, but the concept of surplus value seems to suggest that private property is unjust. Both views in fact are mistaken. Marx defines freedom in terms of active control over one's life, of expression of one's real individual life in one's activities, & of participation in a community. Marx criticizes private property as denying freedom in this sense. His concept of justice or right, however, is of a standard limited by what is possible in a particular society; thus, capitalist societies are capable of being just in the terms appropriate to them. In communist society, Marx argues, justice will be abandoned entirely in favor of recognition of individual qualities. Capitalism & private property, & the standard of justice which arises from them, are condemned for limiting freedom. A more developed mode of production can produce a higher degree of freedom, but not a higher degree of justice. Marx rejected morality in a restrictive, Kantian sense, but a wider concept of morality which excluded his views would also have to exclude those, for example, of Aristotle & Mill. W. H. Stoddard.

The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics is an up-to-date and in-depth analyses of leading topics and issues and a comprehensive philosophical treatment of business ethics. It contains twenty-four original and detailed chapters by accomplished philosophers in the field, a substantive introduction to the field and to the chapters in the volume, up-to-date recommendations for further reading in each area discussed, and innovative presentations of seldom-addressed issues of business ethics.