| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 哲學研究所 === 93 === Rachel Carson in her celebrated environmental classic The Silent Spring (1961) warned the world industrialization and human activities were destroying the earth people lived in, raising people environmental awareness of the negative human impact on the natural world. The World Commission on Environmental and Development in Our Common Future (1987) documented the extensive economic impact on the environment and called for global concerted action to save the environment. It urged industries and corporations to take up environmental responsibilities to arrest the decline of the environment.
Inspired and guided by the idea of corporate social responsibility, corporations should heighten their awareness of and take appropriate actions to minimize the negative impact of their activities on the environment. Hypernorms like the CERES principles and major norms are proposed to guide and constrain corporate activities as they impact on the environment.
This study investigates corporate environmental responsibilities from the perspective of business ethics, with the following objectives:
1. To identify the ways that corporate activities impact on the environment and to give a preliminary ethical sketch of the issues involved.
2. To identify and to give ethical analysis of the issues arising from the corporate impact on the environment by using three case studies.
3. To use, within the framework informed by the Integrated Social Contract Theory (ISCT), the CERES principles and other principles as a basis to construct a set of environmental responsibilities to guide corporate action and decision towards the environment.
Key Terms:
business ethics, corporate environmental responsibilities, corporate social responsibilities, stakeholder, integrated social contract, hypernorms, CERES principles
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