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Business as a Calling
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Work and the Extended Life
By Michael Novak
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Business as a Calling
Dimensions: 0.93'' x 7.83'' x 5.33''
256 pages
Free Press
Publication Date: June 1996
Hardcover
ISBN: 0684827484

This book is a practical guide to the ethical responsibilities of individuals and firms based on moral theory and the real-world experiences of business professionals. The author is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion and Public Policy at AEI. A summary of the book follows. This inquiry is for Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others who take the inner life seriously, including those who, while hesitant to belong to any church, take seriously their vocation as thoughtful and self-questioning beings.

Those who have eaten awhile of material success know that there is more to life than bread. They desire more than having. Many are haunted by the awareness that they are not getting all that is to be drunk of life, that there is somewhere an unfound door, through which what they seek is revealed. The most hardheaded people often feel this most keenly: whatever they attain, that is not it--not what they are looking for.

Further, I imagine that there is tremendous, untapped good will in many of these people and that everything I am about to write is in some sense already known to them, perhaps not in a way that they can put into words, but in a way that will ring true to them the minute they hear it said.

Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at AEI.



Table of Contents

Introduction: Plenty Isn't Enough
  1. What Is a Calling?
  2. Little-Known Facts About Business
  3. A Morally Serious Calling
  4. For the Poor and for Democracy
  5. Virtue in the Modern City
  6. Three Cardinal Virtues of Business
  7. Seven Plus Seven Corporate Responsibilities
  8. Business and Human Rights
  9. Making Things Better
  10. Giving It All Away

Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index



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