The One Necessary Condition for a Successful Business Ethics Course: The Teacher Must be a Philosopher

The responses to the questions of why? When?, how?, where?, and in what ways? business ethics should be taught in the Business Ethics classroom inundate the scholarly literature. Yet, to date, despite some very interesting ideas, with respect to the answers given to the above question, not only has...

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Published in:Business ethics quarterly 1998-07, Vol.8 (3), p.561-574
Main Author: Klein, E. R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic communities
Applied ethics
Business communities
Business community
Business education
Business ethics
Classrooms
Colleges & universities
Curricula
Ethical instruction
Management philosophies
Pedagogy
Philosophers
Philosophical analysis
Philosophy
Recommendations
Respect
Stigma
Students
Studies
Teachers
Teaching
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Summary:The responses to the questions of why? When?, how?, where?, and in what ways? business ethics should be taught in the Business Ethics classroom inundate the scholarly literature. Yet, to date, despite some very interesting ideas, with respect to the answers given to the above question, not only has nothing even close to consensus been reached, but this particular area of pedagogy is in stagnation-authors still challenge both the very idea of teaching business ethics as well as the practical value of such courses for our students once they graduate to the corporate world. In this paper I will suggest that the reason for this lack of pedagogical progress is that there has been a serious oversight regarding the most important teaching question of all: Who? I will show that the pedagogical issue of whom should be teaching Business Ethics has been largely ignored, skirted or answered incorrectly. I will then boldly argue that the only necessary condition for successful courses in Business Ethics is that they be taught by experts in ethics, i.e., Ph.D.s in philosophy.
ISSN:1052-150X
2153-3326
DOI:10.2307/3857438