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Aesthetics and Business Ethics

  • Considers the potential role art could play in ethical analysis and in the classroom
  • Explores in what respects aesthetics and ethics might be intertwined
  • Includes specific works of art and exercises for use in teaching
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 41)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    • Daryl Koehn, Dawn Elm
    Pages 1-5
  3. The Need for Reform

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. An Aesthetic Theory of the Firm

      • John Dobson
      Pages 9-21
    3. Literature and the Canonical Values of Capitalism

      • Christopher M. Michaelson
      Pages 37-50
  4. Reform in the Classroom

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. Cheat: Exporting Business Ethics to Theatre Arts

      • Craig Dunn, Rich Brown
      Pages 103-125
  5. Reform for More Enriched Lives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 149-159

About this book

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, “Ethics is aesthetics.” It is unclear what such a claim might mean and whether it is true. This book explores contentious issues arising at the interface of ethics and aesthetics. The contributions reflect on the status of aesthetic en ethical judgments, the relation of aesthetic beauty and ethical goodness and art and character development. The book further considers the potential role art could play in ethical analysis and in the classroom and explores in what respects aesthetics and ethics might be intertwined and even mutually supportive.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ethics and Business Law, University of St. Thomas, Opus College of Business, St. Paul, USA

    Daryl Koehn, Dawn Elm

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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