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The moral imagination : how literature and films can stimulate ethical reflection in the business world
- Title
- The moral imagination : how literature and films can stimulate ethical reflection in the business world / edited by Oliver F. Williams.
- Publication
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1997], ©1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Williams, Oliver F.
- Description
- viii, 210 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The essays gathered in The Moral Imagination: How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Ethical Reflection in the Business World show how, through literature, art, and film, society might learn to develop a sense of moral imagination.
- Cultivating the imagination through art, literature, and film illuminates our understanding of what it means to be human. By having a genuine sense of self, one can expand an impoverished moral vision and open the way for the greatness of heart that is needed to guide us through an ethical life in business.
- The focus on moral images in business ethics is credited, in part, to Aristotle. Some of these essays can be seen as arguing for a retrieval of the Aristotelian insight on ethics for the business ethics of our time. Ethics in this perspective is not primarily concerned with analyzing situations so that we can make correct decisions but rather with reflecting on what is constitutive of the good life.
- The fostering of this philosophical tradition can bring a crucial corrective to the way business ethics is practiced today.
- Series Statement
- The John W. Houck Notre Dame series in business ethics
- Uniform Title
- John W. Houck Notre Dame series in business ethics.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Challenge: Envisioning the Good Life / Oliver F. Williams -- "Doesn't Anybody Read the Bible Anymo'?": Illiterates at the Gates / Michael Goldberg -- Five Easy Pieces...for Ethical Reflections in Business / John W. Houck -- The Brothers Karamazov: Responsibility and Business Ethics / Timothy L. Fort -- Malice in Wonderland: American Working-Girl Scenarios / Eileen T. Bender -- Other People's Money: A Study in Self-Deception / Oliver F. Williams -- "If Power Changes Purpose": Images of Authority in Literature and Film / Teresa Godwin Phelps -- Stories of Legal Order in American Business / Thomas L. Shaffer -- Mediums, Messages, and the Economic Order: The Legacy of Marshall McLuhan Reconsidered / Bernard Murchland -- "If Life Hands You a Lemmon...": Business Ethics from The Apartment to Glengarry Glen Ross / Dennis P. McCann -- Does Hollywood Bash Big Business? / Michael Medved -- General Johnson Said... / David E. Collins --
- The Moral Challenge to Business Today / Charles van Doren -- Compelling Stories: Narrative and the Production of the Organizational Self / Ellen S. O'Connor -- The Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business.
- ISBN
- 0268014329 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0268014345 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97046844
- OCLC
- ocm38113302
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries