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Fordham EIB Series: "Ethical Mismatches" by Daryl Koehn — Friday, March 7, 2025, 5 pm ET (in-person and online)

  • 1.  Fordham EIB Series: "Ethical Mismatches" by Daryl Koehn — Friday, March 7, 2025, 5 pm ET (in-person and online)

    Posted 02-20-2025 23:49
    Dear colleagues,
    Get ready for an exciting kickoff to our 2025 Fordham Ethics in Business seminars. 
    We will start with character and virtue ethics! Join us as we explore why modern business life poses unique challenges to Aristotelian ethics.
    Daryl Koehn (DePaul University) will present her paper "Ethical Mismatches, Or Why Aristotelian Virtue Ethics May Have Limited Applicability in Today's Modern Workplace" (abstract below)
    The seminar will be held in the Lincoln Center Campus (Room 324, 140 W 62nd St.) on Friday, March 7, 2025, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
    Zoom is available for virtual attendees
    Please kindly RSVP here!

    We look forward to seeing you there!

    With best wishes,

    Miguel

    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.


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