Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good (Issues in Business Ethics, 54)

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 Reflection
		1.1.1 The First Twenty Years [1975–1995]
		1.1.2 The Second Twenty Years [1995–2015]
		1.1.3 The Years Since [2015–2022]
	1.2 The Organization of this Book
	References
Chapter 2: Conscience and the Moral Insight
	2.1 Key Terms
		2.1.1 Insight
		2.1.2 Moral Insight
		2.1.3 Conscience
			2.1.3.1 Its Basis
			2.1.3.2 In Action
			2.1.3.3 Can a Corporation Have One?
	2.2 Ethics
		2.2.1 Three Ways of Thinking About Ethics
		2.2.2 Three Levels of Application of That Thinking
			2.2.2.1 Not So Fast!
			2.2.2.2 Right, Left, and Center
			2.2.2.3 History as a Descriptive Argument for “Corporate” Conscience
	2.3 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Corporations and the Institutional Insight
	3.1 From Moral to Institutional Insight
	3.2 More About Transactions
		3.2.1 Analogical Predication
		3.2.2 Exploring the Analogy
		3.2.3 The Institutional Insight
		3.2.4 Moral Considerability
		3.2.5 Individual and Corporate Responsibility Simultaneously?
		3.2.6 Two Varieties of Institutional Insight
	3.3 Leadership and the Institutional Insight
	References
Chapter 4: The Common Good and the Anthropological Insight
	4.1 From the Corporation to the Common Good
	4.2 The Anthropological Insight
		4.2.1 Stockholders, Stakeholders, and What Lies Beneath
		4.2.2 A Conundrum and the Anthropological Insight
		4.2.3 Sources of Moral Traditions: Faith and Reason
		4.2.4 The Common Good as Integral Human Development
		4.2.5 Mediating Institutions
	4.3 Summary and Transition to Chap. 5
	References
Chapter 5: Business Ethics Education and the Socratic Insight
	5.1 Adding a Fourth Insight
		5.1.1 In the Academy
		5.1.2 Teaching and Learning Ethics by the Case Method
		5.1.3 Because Wisdom Can’t Be Told
	5.2 The Socratic Insight
		5.2.1 Four Philosophical Avenues for Ethical Analysis of Cases
		5.2.2 Executive Development
	References
Chapter 6: Concluding Reflections: Then and Now
	6.1 Conclusion
		6.1.1 Summary
		6.1.2 Changes and Discoveries
			6.1.2.1 Milton Friedman Revisited
			6.1.2.2 Moral Projection and Personal Responsibility
			6.1.2.3 Progress Beneath My Awareness: The Four Insights
			6.1.2.4 The Four Insights Enrich the “Four Avenues” Approach to Ethical Analysis
		6.1.3 The Last 8 Years
			6.1.3.1 Counterfeits of Conscience
			6.1.3.2 Other Counterfeits
		6.1.4 The Future of the Field—Can the Insights Find Traction?
	6.2 Message to the Reader
	References
Chapter 7: Afterword
	7.1 The Birth of Conscience in the Moral Insight
	7.2 Moral Projection, Leadership, and the Institutional Insight
	7.3 The Anthropological Insight—Seeking the Common Good
	7.4 The Socratic Insight: Dialogue, Discernment, and Finding Moral Common Ground
	7.5 Recent Directions in Business Decision Making—Ethics and Its Counterfeits
	References
Appendices
	Appendix 1: Selected Publication List for Kenneth E. Goodpaster
		Books
		Selected Journal Publications by Kenneth E. Goodpaster
		Goodpaster Commentary Articles, Columns, and Book Reviews
		Goodpaster: Harvard Business School Case Studies and Background Notes on Ethics
			Case Studies
			Harvard Business School Background Notes on Ethics
		University of St. Thomas Case Studies and Background Notes on Ethics
			Case Studies
		University of St. Thomas Background Notes on Ethics
	Appendix 2a: Toward an Integrated Approach to Business Ethics
		Part I. Motivating the Model
			A Field Both Old and New
			Ethics: Three Ways of Thinking About Morality
			Moral Transactions: The Subject Matter of Ethics
			Mapping the Domain of Moral Accountability
		Part II. Explicating the Model
			Beyond Classification
			An Integrating Image: Fractals in Geometry
			Giving Meaning to “Moral Fractals”
			Moral Fractals in Business Ethics: A Case Study
		Part III. Some Implications of the Model
			The Social Sciences
			Business Administration
			Ethical Theory
			Conclusion
	Appendix 2b: Tenacity: The American Pursuit of Corporate Responsibility
		Clarifying the Phenomenon of Tenacity
			The Good News
			The Not-So-Good News
		Three Foundations of our Tenacity
			The First Underlying Conviction
			The Second Underlying Conviction
			The Third Underlying Conviction
		How Fragile Is Tenacity Going Forward?
			The Not-So-Good News
			The Good News
		Conclusion
	Appendix 2c: Human Dignity and the Common Good: The Institutional Insight
		Two Moral Provisos
		Searching Beneath the Provisos
		Institutions and the Institutional Insight
		The Institutional Insight
		The Moral Insight and Dual Awareness
		Mediating Institutions
		Is Business a Mediating Institution?
		Comprehensive Moral Thinking
		Human Dignity and the Common Good
			Dignity Beneath Fiduciary Obligations
			The Common Good Beneath Stakeholder Thinking
		Summary and Conclusion
Index