Before virtue: Biology, brain, behavior, and the "moral sense"

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 351-376

  Sadler Smith, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral ethics; Business ethics; Intuition; Intuitive ethics; Moral judgment; Moral sense; Virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873943991     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201222223     Document Type: Article

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