Stigmatization of Goodness

Subject: Business Ethics

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Name: Date: February 27 2014

The main argument of the article is about how today’s students point of view is being affected by things they see every day and what they have been learning from school and their parents. According to the authors, parents are the very first people who instruct their children on how to think and react. Beside parents’ language, students have been facing two major languages that are econophonics and potensiphonics. In the article, econophonics is defined as a language where money is used to dictate and justify all actions, and “the result is a culture in which many things are discussed using financial language.” The other language which is potensiphonics “is reflected in television programming steeped in partisan rable-rousing, where potonsiphonic language undermines balanced discourse and thoughtful analysis.”….To downplay ethical behavior in the workplace,t he authors suggest that students should be left with broader perspectives, to see beyond one-side arguments and the limitations of their socialized thinking. By doing that, students would be allowed to recognize alternative ways of envisioning the world and implementing approaches that improve humanity.

According to the authors, there are three types of “baggage” being carried into the ethics classroom. The first type of baggage is a mind-set that disparages virtue. Basically in this baggage, the main factors are potensiphonic and econophonic languages. Those two languages often appear in newspaper and television, and what students can see is no less than the vilification of those who attempt to ameliorate troubling social, environmental, and organizational situations the culture face. The authors also state that “students come from and environment where those who are virtuous-having the acquired dispositions that morally good human beings exhibit in their behavior are often ridiculed and mockingly dubbed ‘bleeding hearts.’ The...