Ken Goodpaster will share the central themes of his new book: Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good. Can a corporation have a conscience? What might this mean? And if conscience cares about the common good (and it does) can our Catholic tradition help us understand this idea?
Ken's new book reflects the culmination of 50 years of incredible philosophical insights forming the basis of business ethics. His concept of ‘corporate conscience’ as a moral projection from individual conscience to organizational behavior is both an original as well as a most worthwhile approach to organizational responsibility. Coupling that with a clear notion of the common good, Goodpaster provides substantive grounds for a creative analysis of ethical issues in business. This is one of the most exciting new books in the field. - Patricia H. Werhane, Professor Emerita, University of Virginia and Professor Emerita, DePaul University.
Ken Goodpaster is a professor emeritus in the Ethics and Business Law Department at the University of St Thomas Opus College of Business. He earned his AB in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He taught philosophy at the University of Notre Dame during the 1970s before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980. Most recently, in August 2022, Goodpaster completed Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good, published open access by Springer Publishers as part of its Eminent Voices in Business Ethics book series.
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