Introduction

摘要

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Following Aristotle's teaching, corporate professionals and business instructors, ethics practitioners, and academic leaders gathered at the Manhattan (NY) campus of St. John's University for the Fifteenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 22-24, 2008. This assembly was a brave act at that particular time in economic history to be convening an ethics conference, no less in the middle of the financial district!