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Understanding the Separation Thesis: Precision after the Decimal Point?: A Response to Joakim Sandberg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Ben Wempe
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Abstract

Sandberg documents with admirable precision nine rather diverging renderings of Freeman’s call for the rejection of the separation thesis (ST). A more careful consideration of the propriety of importing phrases such as “the rejection of ST” from more established academic disciplines so as to serve in the field of normative business ethics would seem to make that precision premature and maybe even superfluous. This may well be generalized to an observation concerning current working methods in normative business ethics.

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Dialogue: Commentators and Author
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 549 - 553
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2008

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