When most people think of ethics, they think of Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, or Confucius. If they ever attended an ethics course, they think about deontology, teleology, virtue, patriarchal, and feminist ethical theories. They think about big scandals—from Enron to BP to Volkswagen. Unfortunately, most people think ethics is dry, boring, something they learned in school, or something they are required to attend once a year to meet human resources requirements.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
Ethics is at the center of human development, human failure, and human triumph throughout society for the past 4,000 years. It is the crux of the soap opera of human history. It is what is behind jealousy, envy, betrayal, murder, and so ...
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