Etyczna norma „nie czyń poważnych szkód” w perspektywie zasady odpowiedzialności za przyszłość. Regulacyjne implikacje dla etyki biznesu
Ethical norm „do no significant harm” in the perspective of the principle of responsibility for the future. Regulatory implications for business ethics

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, a series of regulations for business have been introduced in theEuropean Union, aimed at achieving the agreements on limiting climate change signedduring the Paris agreements, as well as attempting to redefine the role of business in so-ciety by changing business models – from those in which entrepreneurs privatized profitsand externalized costs, to one where the negative social impact will not only be minimizedbut, first and foremost, taken into account in the business operations of those companies.This change is based on the ethical principle of “do no significant harm.” The purposeof this article is to attempt to expand the justification for applying the “do no significantharm” principle with philosophical arguments. The first part presents the “do no sig-nificant harm” principle contained in the discussed regulations, while the second partattempts to deepen this principle based on philosophical considerations of responsibilityfor the future, as discussed by Hans Jonas and Dieter Birnbacher. In this article, I proposereplacing the temporal perspective of the “do no significant harm” principle with a hori-zontal perspective.

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