Since a corporation is an artificial person it must always act through agents.

It can be argued that agents performing their duty

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as charged, have limited au thority to pursue less that profit maximizing moral actions on behalf of the corporation. Furthermore, it can also be argued that if agents are doing their duty to further the interests of the corporation while performing seemingly moral acts on its behalf (e.g. corporate philanthropy) then acts may not be truly moral. The morality of such acts must be suspect because of the selfish motivation behind them you are trying to further the interests of the corporation by seeming to be moral then you are not engaged in truly valid moral acts). Finally, it can be argued that even if the corporation s agents performed moral acts on it s beh alf regardless of motivation the corporation itself has no true emotional life upon which to build a moral personality. In other words the corporation, because it is not a real or natural person, it is not capable of possessing a moral emotional charac ter