{"id":1918,"date":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2010\/01\/12\/from-viral-advertising-to-corporate-personhood-does-the-corporation-walk-among-us\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"from-viral-advertising-to-corporate-personhood-does-the-corporation-walk-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2010\/01\/12\/from-viral-advertising-to-corporate-personhood-does-the-corporation-walk-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"From Viral Advertising to Corporate Personhood: Does the Corporation Walk Among Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The object upon which my project will be based is the corporation.   <\/p>\n<p>The context in which I will explore the corporation is viewing corporations with the framing of an individual.     <\/p>\n<p>Although corporations are what the name implies, a group of individuals working together towards the production of profit; corporations share many attributes that an individual holds, including corporations being seen as &#8216;legal persons&#8217; in legislation.     <\/p>\n<p>Therefore, to what extent is an individual human and a corporation the same as one another or different?   <\/p>\n<p>To explore this idea, I will use topics such as;<br \/>\n\u2022 Aristotelian virtue ethics \u2013 can corporations have traits and characteristics which deem them to be virtuous?<br \/>\n\u2022 Hegelian social ethics \u2013 how can corporations function ethically within a social whole and guarantee &#8216;recognition&#8217; to stakeholders and employees?<br \/>\n\u2022 Social contact theories \u2013 taking Hobbesian social contact theory and applying it to the corporation<br \/>\n\u2022 Prevailing thoughts in the newly developing field of business ethics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Ryan, 2010, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564,22,128],"tags":[427,571,21],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-564","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-advertising","tag-corporations","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}