Business Ethics

Business professionals must not only discover the vision of justice that underlies their business practices, but they also must submit this vision to critical scrutiny. The purpose of this course is to pursue both these aims. We will search for the moral ideals embedded in modern capitalist business practices and we will submit these moral ideals to critical evaluation. The goal is to discover the moral frameworks that can motivate and inform good business today.

Text

Business Ethics (open source, online)

Supplementary texts

Supplementary text files

Assignments

Learning Statements
Presentation Rubric / Sign-up
Presentation Grading Form
Case Studies
Learning Agreement
Final Paper Rubric (~2000 words)

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Schedule

Slides

Supplementary Readings
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chatper 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11