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Why Ethics is not the Only Thing that Matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

David M. Messick
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Abstract

Ethics surely matters to people, but to ignore the fact that other things matter as well is to oversimplify human motivation and behavior. Human action is often the ungainly resolution of conflicts between ethical and egotistical impulses, and the challenge for moral psychology is to understand these conflicts and their resolution.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1996, pp. 223 - 226
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1996

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