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Corporate moral agency: A case from literature

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I analyze a well-known and moving passage from John Steinbeck's novelThe Grapes of Wrath. This passage provides an excellent illustration of one of the central questions about corporate moral agency: Is corporate moral agency anything over and above the agency of individual human beings? The passage in question is a debate about whether or not the actions of a particular company are anything over and above the actions of individual human beings.

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  1. Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago, 60626, Chicago, IL, USA

    Thomas L. Carson

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Thomas L. Carson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author ofThe Status of Morality and numerous papers on ethical theory and business ethics.

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Carson, T.L. Corporate moral agency: A case from literature. J Bus Ethics 13, 155–156 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881584

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