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Alternative Approaches and Assumptions: Comments on Manuel Velasquez

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Abstract

I feel that Professor Velasquez has written a very interesting and thought-provoking paper on an important topic. His initial identification with a “strong notion of the common good” (p. 1) raises the level of analysis to a high but very complex plane. The author introduces the interesting and, from my view, unusual realist objection in the Hobbsian form. After a rigorous analysis of this concept Professor Velasquez reaches what I find to be a disturbing conclusion: “It is not obvious that we can say that multinationals have an obligation to contribute to the global common good…” (p. 6). He then finishes t he paper with a strong plea for the establishment of “an international authority capable of forcing everyone to contribute toward the global good” (p. 6).

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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1992

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1 “Corporate Ethics: A Prime Business Asset.” A Report of The Business Roundtable, 200 Park Avenue, Suite 2222, New York, NY 10166, 1988.

2 Ibid., p. 56.

3 “Polaroid—Kodak, B.” Harvard Business School Cases 378-173 through 378-182, 1978.