Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter Profilogue
  • part Part I The ethical trouble and its makers A perennial plague
  • chapter 1 The institution and the conflicts behind it
  • part Part II
  • Should debts be paid?
  • chapter 2 Natural law, consequentialism and contractualism
  • Theories of promising and their shortfalls
  • chapter 3 In search of the ultimate obligation
  • Why a metaethical affair?
  • chapter 4 Ethics founded on autonomy: a modest objectivist foundationalist interpretation of Kant Reviving the metaphysics of morals: a Kantian bridge
  • A modest objectivist foundationalist interpretation of Kant
  • chapter 5 Autonomy and promissory obligations
  • KANT ON PROMISES
  • part Part III Ethical principles of insolvency Should debts always be paid?
  • chapter 6 Going broke, breaking promises
  • chapter 7 Deontological ethics and insolvency
  • chapter 8 What kind of discharge?
  • part Part IV
  • A counterattack
  • chapter 9 Propping up civil liability / Contract, breach of trust and tort
  • chapter 10 Punishment
  • part Part V
  • A current affair
  • chapter 11 Bankruptcy law reform
  • An ethical perspective
  • chapter 12 Gearing up, crashing loud
  • Should high-flyers be punished for insolvency?
  • chapter Part VI
  • Chador or gauze?
  • chapter 13 Corporate moral personhood
  • chapter 14 Moral responsibility for corporate debts
  • chapter Epilogue.