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- Title
Vincent de Paul: A Saint Who Got His Worlds Together.
- Authors
McKenna, Thomas F.
- Abstract
From the point of view of a saint's life, the article addresses the question of integrating holiness and business dealings. By analyzing the heavy involvement of Vincent de Paul, a seventeenth century French saint, in the world of finance and politics as he ministered to the poor of his day, the study attempts to show that it is both possible and beneficial to join together the world of business with that of a religiously inspired ethic. The spiritually grounded manner in which Vincent de Paul approached his institutional tasks and the ways in which those endeavors gave body to his spirituality present an unitary, non-dualistic instance of how business and morality can interact.
- Subjects
VINCENT de Paul, Saint, 1581-1660; BUSINESS ethics; BUSINESSMEN'S conduct of life; EXECUTIVES' conduct of life; NOBILITY of character; CHARACTER; HONOR; INTEGRITY; PROFESSIONAL ethics; HOLINESS; APPLIED ethics; NORMATIVITY (Ethics)
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 1997, Vol 16, Issue 3, p299
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1017903813655