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Do businesses have moral obligations beyond what the law requires?

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Professor Fieser has published articles on the topics of rights theory, environmental ethics, moral skepticism, David Hume, and Thomas Aquinas. He has recently edited and annotated David Hume's The Natural History of Religion for MacMillan Publications.

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Fieser, J. Do businesses have moral obligations beyond what the law requires?. Journal of Business Ethics 15, 457–468 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380365

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