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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806909603321

Autore

Kilpi Jukka <1954, >

Titolo

The ethics of bankruptcy / / Jukka Kilpi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-69443-1

1-134-69444-X

1-280-11015-5

0-203-26855-5

0-203-00241-5

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 220 p

Collana

Professional ethics

Disciplina

174/.4

Soggetti

Corporate debt - Moral and ethical aspects

Bankruptcy - Moral and ethical aspects

Social responsibility of business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Profilogue -- part Part I The ethical trouble and its makers A perennial plague -- chapter 1 The institution and the conflicts behind it -- part Part II -- Should debts be paid? -- chapter 2 Natural law, consequentialism and contractualism -- Theories of promising and their shortfalls -- chapter 3 In search of the ultimate obligation -- Why a metaethical affair? -- chapter 4 Ethics founded on autonomy: a modest objectivist foundationalist interpretation of Kant Reviving the metaphysics of morals: a Kantian bridge -- A modest objectivist foundationalist interpretation of Kant -- chapter 5 Autonomy and promissory obligations -- KANT ON PROMISES -- part Part III Ethical principles of insolvency Should debts always be paid? -- chapter 6 Going broke, breaking promises -- chapter 7 Deontological ethics and insolvency -- chapter 8 What kind of discharge? -- part Part IV -- A counterattack -- chapter 9 Propping up civil liability / Contract, breach of trust and tort -- chapter 10 Punishment -- part Part V -- A current affair -- chapter 11 Bankruptcy law reform -- An ethical perspective -- chapter 12 Gearing up, crashing loud -- Should high-flyers be punished for insolvency? -- chapter Part VI -- Chador or gauze? --



chapter 13 Corporate moral personhood -- chapter 14 Moral responsibility for corporate debts -- chapter Epilogue.