CHAPTER 1

Ethics

Meaning

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

—Socrates

In its broadest conception, ethics can be understood as how you choose to live your life, the interaction between you and your environment, the art of living. Think about that for a moment. Ethics is about the relationship you have with life. What could be more fundamental, more profound, more worthy of your attention than that? Ethics is how you choose to live your life. It’s the relationship you want to have with life. This is fundamental and you have a choice. When I truly grasped the greater meaning of what ethics was really about, it fundamentally altered the way I approached my job as a professor of business ethics.

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