zfwu is a scholarly journal. Through its interdisciplinary theoretical and practical orientation at the crossroads of economics and (practical) philosophy, it primarily provides the discipline as well as interested representatives of business, politics and other relevant institutions with a high level business and economic ethics discussion forum. The languages of publication are German and English.
The aim of this article is to discuss Peter Ulrich's so-called ‘socio-economic concept of rationality’ from the perspective of economic philosophy and constructive criticism. This concept of rationality, which is intended to overcome the...
This article addresses the relevance of the discourse in the sense of Peter Ulrich's integrative economic ethics for the social-ecological perspective of Adelheid Biesecker and Stefan Kesting. Based on this, relevant aspects of the discourse are...
This paper deals with the Integrative Economic Ethics. Purpose of the paper is the proposal of a new formulation of the normative idea of practical socio-economics which will help to locate questions of responsibility on the one hand and to address...
This paper uses the perspective of integrative economic ethics to critically analyze the interplay of economic and technological determinism. The purpose of the paper is to illustrate how the perspective of integrative economic ethics enables...
Integrative Economic Ethics deserves credit for exposing alleged economic constraints as normative questions of reasonableness that need to be assessed in a deliberative discourse. Whether complying with a given moral demand can be considered...
The integrative business ethics according to Peter Ulrich aims to not separate ethics and business. This is a statement that is of utmost importance for business and economic education. However, the integrative business ethics emphasizes more moral...
Peter Ulrich’s integrative business ethics answers the metaethical question of the validity of ethics with an ultimate justification based on discourse ethics. We argue that this endeavour faces a logical induction problem when rights and duties...
The integrative approach to economic and business ethics has been presented in 1997 (cf. Ulrich 2016 [1997]). An English version has followed a decade later (cf. Ulrich 2008). Four integrative intensions are distinctive for this approach: (1) to...