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Do not Miss It: Daryl Koehn at the Fordham EIB Seminar TOMORROW (March 7, 5 PM)

  • 1.  Do not Miss It: Daryl Koehn at the Fordham EIB Seminar TOMORROW (March 7, 5 PM)

    Posted 03-06-2025 13:55
    Dear colleagues,
    This is a final reminder that our Fordham Ethics in Business seminar with Daryl Koehn (DePaul University) is TOMORROW, Friday, March 7th!
    Do not miss the opportunity to engage with Daryl's new work, "Ethical Mismatches, Or Why Aristotelian Virtue Ethics May Have Limited Applicability in Today's Modern Workplace."
    Quick details:

    TOMORROW: Friday, March 7, 2025
    Time: 5:00-6:30 p.m. (EST)
    Location: Lincoln Center Campus, Room 324 (140 W 62nd St.)
    Virtual option: Zoom available

    There is still time to RSVP here if you have not already!

    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.


    Warm regards,

    Miguel

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