Aloni G. The Ethics of Business: socio-philosophical aspect

The dissertation deals with the problem of business ethics as an important variant of applied ethical philosophy, as ethical theory in "the terms of life". The ethics of business is an innovation in social and ethical theory, in Ukrainian scientific literature there are almost no works that could present conceptually this new branch of applied ethics. In the dissertation the stages of the genesis of business ethics are distinguished and systematized, ethical criteria and conceptual notions are worked out. The dialectics of the fundamental principles of meta-ethics and categorical standards of business ethics as a professional ethical doctrine are elucidated. The functional vectors of business ethics in social aspect are defined and the ethical principal praxeological purposes are distinguished. The essence of socio-ethical education in the sphere of business culture is disclosed; the ethical components in managers' experience of enterprising process are shown.