Fairness as Moral Virtue

Abstract

Morality includes fairness as a notable virtue. This chapter contrasts fairnessas-morality (ethical conduct) with the fairness of social and organizational studies. The fairness that those disciplines portray only faintly resembles fairness-as-morality. Their legacy-an anorexic fairness-instead reduces fairness to selfishness. Despite noble efforts to break the stranglehold of economic rationality and self-interest maximization, their version of fairness remains closer to greed and envy than to the moral virtue that can sustain the commonweal.

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