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| Author: | Hooker, J. |
| Title: | The case against business ethics education: A study in bad arguments |
| Journal: | Journal of business ethics education
2004 : VOL. 1:1, p. 75-88 |
| Index terms: | Business ethics Education |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper examines several popular arguments against teaching business ethics (henceforth as: b-e./ for 'ethics' as: e.): 1. the ethical (here as: e-l.) duty of business people (here as: b-ppl.) is to maximize profit within the law, whence the irrelevance of e. courses (the Milton Friedman argument), 2. b-ppl. respond to economic and legal incentives, not to e-l. sentiments, which means that teaching e. will have no effect, 3. one cannot study e. in any meaningful sense anyway, because it is a matter of personal preference and is unsusceptible to rational treatment, 4. moral character is formed in early childhood, not while sitting in e. class, and 5. business students see no motivation to study e. and will not take it seriously. The mistakes and confusion underlying these arguments are exposed. |
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