With an Objectivist ethics based on Individualism, what moral conduct does this imply for an entrepreneur? Let’s begin with honesty and integrity. Honesty demands you be truthful with others. Integrity demands you be truthful with yourself. To be truthful is to be aligned with reality. To be untruthful is to be in conflict with reality, …
Historically business practices have been considered at a minimum amoral if not in fact immoral. Business financing and profit seeking in all its forms, historically referred to as “usury”, was considered as immoral even by Aristotle, as he deemed it unproductive. It was condemned and punished by the Catholic Church during the Dark and Middle …
It may seem odd to suggest that philosophy has anything to do with entrepreneurship. It is no surprise, like most people, an entrepreneur might find little value in studying philosophical ideas based on their limited exposure to philosophy. To many, philosophy conjures up images of Greek scholars in long robes proclaiming, as Plato did, that …