15.269B
Literature, Ethics and Authority
Fall 2002
Topics
- Power and Authority
- Ethics and Business Ethics
- Loyalty and Conflict of Values
- Leadership and Followership
- Dirty Money
- Stewardship
- Living in the System
- Taking Charge
- Living with the Truth
- Glass Ceilings
Readings
- Dostoyevksy. The Legend of the Grand Inquistor .
- Kantor, Rosabeth. Excerpt from Men and Women of the Corporation .
- Cheever, John. The Housebreaker of Shady Hill .
- Carr, Albert. Is Business Bluffing Ethical?
- Aristotle. The Politics . (Excerpt on household management)
- Sophocles. Antigone .
- Hobbes, Thomas. Excerpt from Leviathan .
- Aristotle. Politics . Bk 3, ch. 9.
- Lucas, J. R. “Money.” Excerpt from Responsibility.
- Dinesen, Isak. (Karen von Blixen). Sorrow-Acre .
- Friedman, Milton. The Social Responsibility of Business is Profit .
- Heifetz, Ronald. “Tacoma.” From Leadership without Easy Answers .
- Forster, E. M. The Machine Stops .
- Pruitt and Barrett. Corporate Virtual Workspace .
- “Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster.”
- Orwell, George. Shooting an Elephant .
- Williams, William Carlos. The Use of Force .
- Kant, Immanuel. On the Supposed Right to Lie .
- Bonhoffer, Dietrich. Situational Ethics .
- Levitt, Theodore. The Morality (?) of Advertising .
- Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House .
- Beauvoir, Simone de. Introduction to The Second Sex .
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.