Theology in business ethics: Appealing to the religious imagination
Journal of Business Ethics · 1992 · Volume 11 · Issue 2
Abstract
By appealing to the religious imagination Theology can make a distinctive contribution to business ethics. In the first part of the essay I examine what is entailed by appealing to the imagination to reason in ethics: through converging arguments the imagination enables us rationally to interpret reality and to infer obligations. In the following sections I consider the relevance of the religious imagination for business ethics. In the second part I explain the imagination's use of religious metaphor to establish its theological distinctiveness in ethical inquiry. Then in the final part I illustrate Theology's contribution to business ethics by studying the imagination's use of religious metaphor with regard to profit and to third world debt.
Keywords
Economic Growth, Ethical Inquiry, Business Ethic, Metaphor, Final Part
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