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Literature, Ethics and Authority

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States15.269B
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2002English
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Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when questions arise about its sources and its legitimacy. Most treatments of this subject resort to case-studies in order to illustrate the application of ethical principles to business situations, but our primary emphasis will be upon classic works of imaginative literature, which convey more directly than case-studies the ethical pressures of decision-making.

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