Hodnoty a ekonomické správanie

Abstract

The article presents a reflection on the structure of values functioning as motivators of economic behaviour. Considering the principle of the rational egoism the author describes three segments of crucial values, which seem to be fundamental, as a matter of the contemporary euro-american economic value system – freedom and justice; responsibility and confidence; progress, prosperity and rationality. An important methodological basis of our reflection is the Ethics of social consequences – dynamically developing consequencialist ethical theory, responding to the challenges arising in the field of applied ethics in the framework of efforts to solve practical problems of today's world.