Business and morality: contradiction or concomitant Cover Image

Бизнес и нравственность: противоречие или сопутствие
Business and morality: contradiction or concomitant

Author(s): Rostislav Yarema
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Economy, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Business Ethics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: moral business; thirst for enrichment; goal-setting of entrepreneurial activity; social responsibility; entrepreneurs of the late XIX - early XX centuries; Orthodox values

Summary/Abstract: The article raises the problem concerning mechanisms of the interrelation of modern business in Russia and morality, also it raises the issue of dialectical, diachronic correlation of these concepts or consideration of their synchronous interaction, oriented to the general welfare of society. In the course of the problem’s analysis, examples of entrepreneurial activity of industrialists and philanthropists of the early 19th-20th centuries are given, the role of Orthodox values and the national traditions formed on their basis in the course of regulating these mechanisms are examined.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 201-206
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian