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Self-awareness key to living with integrity

Published: May 20, 2011 / Author: Andrew Fiala



Does knowledge make us better? Since Socrates, philosophers have assumed that
knowledge and education are somehow correlated with goodness: the more you know,
the better you are. But is this true?

Consider, for example, the question of whether ethics courses and curricula
are effective. Several recent studies indicate that business ethics courses have
limited impact on the ethical attitudes of students. One study, by Ronald Jewe
from Azusa Pacific University, surveyed students who had taken a business ethics
course. Jewe concluded that there was “no significant difference between those
who had taken a business ethics course and those who had not, when it came to
their ethical attitudes.”

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