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JOURNAL OF LEADERSHIP, ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICS


The Ethical Dilemma of Teaching Ethics Clothing Unethical Practices
with Ethical Virtues


Author(s): J. David Mason

Citation: J. David Mason, (2010) "The Ethical Dilemma of Teaching Ethics Clothing Unethical Practices
with Ethical Virtues," Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, pp. 34 - 44

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

This paper addresses the question of why unethical behavior continues to be problematic in spite of the attention given to ethics training in education. This paper argues that much of the blame is due to the educational establishment using ethics education (1) to clothe unethical practices with ethical virtues, (2) to promote a pluralistic post-modern viewpoint rather than teach ethics, and (3) to replace logical reasoning in ethics with logical fallacies. This paper reaches the inescapable conclusion that such an approach to the teaching of ethics (so called) will be ineffective in reversing the ethical demise of our society.