This article identifies the moral premises of contemporary business ethics. After analyzing thirty business ethics texts, the article shows that many business ethicists hold the conventional view that being moral is altruistic. This altruistic perspective logically implies a negative evaluation of self-interest and the profit motive, and business. As a result, the prevailing attitude in mainstream business ethics is that without altruistic restraints businesspeople are inclined to lie, steal, and cheat, not create and earn wealth through honest production and voluntary trade. Therefore, the central concern in current business ethics is to curb businesspeople morally, not to empower them in their self-interested desire to make money. In the final analysis, the article shows how the anti-egoist assumptions manifest themselves in a moral prejudice against business, leading to a biased, unfair, and misleading account of the business world.

本文确定了当代商业伦理的道德前提。在分析了三十篇商业伦理文本后，文章表明，许多商业伦理学家持有道德是利他的传统观点。这种利他主义的观点在逻辑上意味着对自身利益和利润动机以及商业的负面评价。因此，主流商业伦理中的主流态度是，没有利他约束的商人倾向于撒谎、偷窃和欺骗，而不是通过诚实生产和自愿交易来创造和赚取财富。因此，当前商业道德的核心关注点是在道德上遏制商人，而不是赋予他们自利的赚钱欲望。归根结底，