School of Humanities and Social Sciences lecturer Rose Catacutan recently wrote an article titled Education in virtues as goal of business ethics instruction. The article has been published in the African Journal of Business Ethics.

Below is an abstract and a link to the full paper.

ABSTRACT

The moral development paradigm underlying a particular business ethics curriculum design plays a
significant role in determining the goals of business ethics instruction. Concretely, the view of moral
development advanced by cognitive developmental psychology that dominates business ethics literature
identifies moral development with cognitive processes, but disregards educating students in virtues.
The aim of the present paper is to propose an alternative paradigm of moral development to that of
cognitive developmental psychology and presents Aquinas’ view of moral development as a suitable
framework for a curriculum design that focuses on virtues as a possible goal of business ethics instruction.

 

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