CSR- business ethics

Is csr really acting because it is the right thing to do

strength- Kant suggests honest shopkeeper shows that csr is acceptable if acting because it is the right thing to do

CA-Kant may detest as ethics is the first thing to go after profit goes.

Does csr treat people as ends in themselves?

Strength-csr is a good thing as it treats people as a means to an end by acting ethically and philanthropically

CA-csr in reality is just window dressing eg. Car manufactures

Does csr produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number?

Strength-typically more employers than shareholders, so being ethical produces gain of pleasure

CA-allowing a business to make profit produces the greatest happiness because wealth can be reinvested

does a business have responsibility to be ethical?

Strength-businesses are not people so don’t have ethical responsibilities, abstract entity.

CA-but shareholders are human beings so have responsibility to be ethical

Is CSR too optimistic to implement into our society?

strength-companies will only pay lip service to csr in a competitive free market economy

Ca-can be effective if enforced through laws