Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations

by Geoff Moore

The conclusion we have reached, therefore, is a rather nuanced one. Not everything is a practice; some activities are excluded because they do not have internal goods which serve the common good (concentration camps, for example). Some activities clearly are practices even if, sometimes, they stand in need of moral criticism (chess, medicine, architecture, for example). And some activities may have been practices in the past, or could have the potential to be practices in the future, but institutional corruption and acquisitiveness is such that there is barely any evidence of practice-like features (banking, for example). But in the latter case, it may yet be possible to redeem these activities so that they, at least, begin to exhibit practice-like features.