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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 |
| Freeterms: | arguments |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates several popular arguments against teaching business ethics: (a) the ethical duty of business people is to maximize profit within the law, whence the irrelevance of ethics courses (the Milton Friedman argument); (b) business people respond to economic and legal incentives, not to ethical sentiments, which means that teaching ethics will have no effect; (c) one cannot study ethics in any meaningful sense anyway, because it is a matter of personal preference and is unsusceptible to rational treatment; (d) moral character is formed in early childhood, not while sitting in ethics class; and (e) business students see no motivation to study ethics and will not take it seriously. |
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