Where Business Meets Philosophy: the Matter of Ethics

I teach business ethics. Uttering those four words at a dinner party is like detonating a conversational bomb. No one ever seems indifferent, especially when I tell them that my background is actually in philosophy (I did my doctoral work on Wittgenstein's later philosophy of meaning and value). I subsequently went into the field of applied ethics, particularly in business, because there was, and still is, growing demand. One could scarcely imagine a subject