The Corporate Social Responsibility according to Kant Moral’s Philosophy

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model which a business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards of national or international norms. The aim is to increased longterm profits and shareholder and trustees through positive public relations and high ethical standards for reducing business and legal risk by taking responsibility for corporate actions. CSR strategies encourage the company to make a positive impact on the environment and stakeholders including consumers, employees, investors, communities, and others. While Kant constructed the basis moral philosophy for using an ethical law from the concept of duty. Kant began his ethical theory by arguing that the only virtue that can not be unqualifiedly the goodness is a good will. No other virtue has this status because every other virtue can be used to achieve immoral ends as the virtue of loyalty is not good if one is loyal to an evil person. The good will is unique that is always good and maintains its moral value even when it fails to achieve its moral intentions. Kant regarded the good will as a single moral principle which freely chooses to use the other virtues for moral ends.