The Loss of Wisdom in the University and the Perils of Business Education: Recovering Practical Wisdom Through the Integration of Liberal and Professional Education
"When a person's virtue is not equal to his position, all will suffer." When education fails to foster virtue in professional and especially business schools the world is in peril. This essay addresses some of the significant challenges in educating practically wise business professio...
| Subtitles: | "Theme issue: Virtues in business" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Christian scholar's review
Year: 2024, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 23-39 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science NCE Business ethics ZF Education |
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| Summary: | "When a person's virtue is not equal to his position, all will suffer." When education fails to foster virtue in professional and especially business schools the world is in peril. This essay addresses some of the significant challenges in educating practically wise business professionals. Universities need to recover a Thomistic view of practical wisdom that provides a three-fold embedded function: seeing the alignment between liberal and professional education, practical wisdom (phronesis/prudentia) is embedded within speculative wisdom (sophia); judging with clarity the good business does by defining the goods of business and institutions embedded within the common good; and acting within a university where the university principle (the education of the mind) is embedded within the collegiate principle (formation of the will and heart). A special thanks to Karen Laird and Lizzie Michalak for their helpful editing. I am especially grateful to Elisabeth Kincaid who gathered scholars for a seminar on practical wisdom at Loyola University New Orleans. Their critical insights of my paper were helpful in nuancing several items. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian scholar's review
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