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A Reaction to Vogel’s “The Ethical Roots of Business”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Thomas F. McMahon*
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Loyola University of Chicago

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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1991

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1 Vogel, David, The Ethical Roots of Business Ethics,” Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1991), p. 101.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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3 Op. cit., p. 103.

4 Luke 1:9, 1–10.

5 Deut. 23,19: “You shall not lend upon interest to your brother, interest on money …interest on anything that is lent for interest.” The Bible. Revised Standard Version. New York: American Bible Society, 1980.Google Scholar Also, see Exod. 22, 25; Levit. 25, 27, Deut. 15, 6; Ps. 14, 5.

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7 Ibid.

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9 Ibid.

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12 Ibid., p. 52.

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27 Ibid., p. 111.

28 Ibid.

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30 Digesta, 7:5:2, 5, 6, 7 and 10. Quoted in Noonan, op. cit., p. 54, note 58.

31 Noonan, op. cit., p. 56. Italics added.

32 Noonan, ibid.

33 Ibid.

34 Noonan, op. cit., p. 12.

35 Vogel, p. 108.

36 St. Bernardine, De contractibus et usuris, in Opera omnis (Venice 1745). Vol. II, Sermon 36, art. 1, c. 2. Quoted in Noonan, op. cit., p. 32.

37 S.T., II-II, q. 77, a. 4, ed. cit.

38 S.T., II-II, q. 77, a. 4, ed. cit.

39 Hollis, op. cit., p. 23.

40 S.T., II-II, q. 77, a. 1, q. 1.

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42 Vogel, p. 113.

43 Vogel, p. 112.

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48 S.T., II-II, q. 78, a. 2 ad 1.

49 S.T., II-II, q. 78, a. 1. Eng. trans., op. cit., p. 1518.

50 Noonan, op. cit., p. 13.

51 S.T., II-II, q. 77, a. 1.

52 S.T., II-II, q. 77, a. 4. Eng. trans., op. cit.

53 Ibid.

54 Vogel, p. 113.

55 S.T., I-II, q. 1, aa. 1–8.

56 Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 1, Ch. 8–10. See Johnston, Herbert, Business Ethics (2nd ed. rev.), New York: Pitman Publishing, 1961, p. 121.Google Scholar

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59 Ibid., q. 77, a. 4. Eng. trans., op. cit., p. 1517.

60 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Morris, W., ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976, p. 1045.Google Scholar