Capability Approach: Probe Of Amartya Sen's Method Of Business Ethics

As a subject across Economics and Ethics, business ethics won't enjoy promising future by only using approaches that already Economics and Ethics had, it should probe suitable approach at the joint area and try every effort to change the isolated situation of the two subjects. Capability approach of Amartya Sen tries every effort to change the isolation of Economics and Ethics, offering an approach platform which is facing up to practical life of business ethics. Capability approach is based on freedom, and the functions are its contents, the ultimate goal of the approach is capability. The approach surpasses the isolated approaches of Economics and Ethics, it breaks the isolated situation and endeavor to create reasonable approach of business ethics. Moreover the approach will help to rebuild the integrated relation between Economics and Ethics.After criticizing the popular isolated approaches utilized by business ethics, such as Utilitarianism, Hayek's methodological individualism, Welfarism, John Rawls'Justice theory, Robert Nozick's Libertarianism and Collectivism approach, Sen provides capability approach as evaluation method of business ethics, it enjoys the following three superiorities and innovations:First and foremost, it holds plurality of evaluation criteria to select, it requires that both Ethics and Economics should enlarge their information of evaluation, it is disagree to insist one criterion and give up the other. Income, commodity, utility, common good, freedom, each of them outlined above has its own internal value. It is misleading to insist one of them at the cost of giving up the other.Secondly, it persists in consequence-sensible reasoning, it agrees on the positive significance of consequence-sensible consideration that Utilitarianism holds. Comparing with deontology which refuses consequence consideration, broaden consequence consideration could comprise versatile moral concentrations.Thirdly, it insists on agent-relative consideration, agent-relative consideration holds that moral assessment should consider agent itself and agent's participation besides consequence consideration. The opinion is contrary to consequence-center Ethics, such as Utilitarianism. Putting emphasis on agent-relative could escape from agent failure which is caused by deontology that overemphasizing the procedure and quitting the practical content.Capability approach regards freedom as its philosophical essence. The essence of capability approach holds that human beings enjoy practical freedom which help them to enjoy their cherished life. This kind of freedom includes not only constructive moral level but also instrumental level, it consists of political freedoms, economic facilities, social opportunities, transparent guarantees and protective security. Capability approach holds freedom of plurality, firstly, it insists integration of internal freedom...