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The moral imagination : how literature and films can stimulate ethical reflection in the business world / edited by Oliver F. Williams.

Williams, Oliver F.
1997
174.4 M828i 1997
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Title
The moral imagination : how literature and films can stimulate ethical reflection in the business world / edited by Oliver F. Williams.
ISBN
0268014329 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780268014322 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0268014345 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780268014346 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1997.
Language
English
Description
viii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
174.4 M828i 1997
System Control No.
(OCoLC)38113302
(OCoLC)38113302
Summary
The essays gathered in The Moral Imagination: How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Ethical Reflection in the Business World show how, through literature, art, and film, society might learn to develop a sense of moral imagination. Cultivating the imagination through art, literature, and film illuminates our understanding of what it means to be human. By having a genuine sense of self, one can expand an impoverished moral vision and open the way for the greatness of heart that is needed to guide us through an ethical life in business. The focus on moral images in business ethics is credited, in part, to Aristotle. Some of these essays can be seen as arguing for a retrieval of the Aristotelian insight on ethics for the business ethics of our time. Ethics in this perspective is not primarily concerned with analyzing situations so that we can make correct decisions but rather with reflecting on what is constitutive of the good life. The fostering of this philosophical tradition can bring a crucial corrective to the way business ethics is practiced today.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
The challenge : envisioning the good life / Oliver F. Williams
"Doesn't anybody read the Bible anymo'?" : illiterates at the gates / Michael Goldberg
Five easy pieces
for ethical reflections in business / John W. Houck
The brothers Karamazov : responsibility and business ethics / Timothy L. Fort
Malice in wonderland : American working-girl scenarios / Eileen T. Bender
Other people's money : a study in self-deception / Oliver F. Williams
"If power changes purpose" : images of authority in literature and film / Teresa Godwin Phelps
Stories of legal order in American business / Thomas L. Shaffer
Mediums, messages, and the economic order : the legacy of Marshall McLuhan reconsidered / Bernard Murchland
"If life hands you a lemmon
" : business ethics from The apartment to Glendarry Glen Ross / Dennis P. McCann
Does Hollywood bash big business? / Michael Medved
General Johnson said
/ David E. Collins
The moral challenge to business today / Charles Van Doren
Compelling stories : narrative and the production of the organizational self / Ellen S. O'Connor.
Added Author
Williams, Oliver F.
Series
John W. Houck Notre Dame series in business ethics.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Moral imagination. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1997
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