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Executive Summary With regards to the nature of business ethics, what are the core theories that apply? Plato’s concept of ethics is the theory of Virtues, these are deep-seated characteristical traits of people, and when they are fully expressed in a person, that person is ethical. The defined four specific Virtues are temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice. Kant took a very different view from Plato in his own philosophy of ethics, at the core of which is the categorical imperative. A categorical imperative is a moral statement that is true in all cases, and which can be relied upon to decide if a certain action is ethical. For example, one can say, “you should not steal.” This can be viewed as true for all people and may be relied upon in all cases. John Stuart Mill took another viewpoint on ethics in his argument for utilitarianism. His argument

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