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Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Business: Fordham Ethics Seminar with Daryl Koehn - Friday, March 7 at 5 pm EST

  • 1.  Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Business: Fordham Ethics Seminar with Daryl Koehn - Friday, March 7 at 5 pm EST

    Posted 02-28-2025 11:05
    Dear colleagues,
    This is a reminder that our first Fordham Ethics in Business seminar of 2025 is happening next Friday, March 7th.
    The great Daryl Koehn will invite us to explore the tensions between ancient wisdom and modern corporate life. She will present her paper "Ethical Mismatches, Or Why Aristotelian Virtue Ethics May Have Limited Applicability in Today's Modern Workplace."

    Details:
    Date: Friday, March 7, 2025
    Time: 5:00-6:30 p.m.
    Location: Lincoln Center Campus, Room 324 (140 W 62nd St.)
    Virtual option: Zoom available (link will be sent to registered attendees)

    Please kindly RSVP here.

    Abstract:
    We moderns tend to focus on numerous reasons for ethical failure-so-called moral luck, moral dilemmas, moral tragedy, perverse incentives-that Aristotle largely ignores. Aristotle focuses instead on ethical success at the species level. However, ethical success may not be as achievable as Aristotle assumes. This paper considers numerous reasons for thinking that Aristotle's theory of virtue ethics, a theory centered on human excellence realized through practices inextricably bound to the larger world of politics, would need to be revised substantially to be applicable in modern corporate life and work. Modifying the theory is itself problematic on numerous scores.

    We look forward to seeing you there!

    Miguel


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    Miguel Alzola Ph. D.
    Associate Professor of Ethics
    Fordham University