The Neo-Socratic Dialogue (NSD): a method of teaching the ethics of sustainable development

Abstract: Business enterprises are increasingly regarded as key actors of sustainable development. The development towards sustainable business is even more fostered by the spreading of business rankings based on corporate sustainability indexes, which assess the overall sustainable performance. But despite these trends the awareness of the necessary sustainability shift within business enterprises is rather moderate. At least to some extent this can be explained by the lack of instruments to teach sustainable development in business schools and in advanced business training. This holds especially true for the ethical questions of sustainability. This is amazing since the concept of sustainable development is strongly bound to moral principles (e.g. social justice, dignity of man, human rights, ethical concepts of a good life and of solidarity). Relying on these implicit principles sustainability indexes demand for sustainable products and services, for ecological management, for social repo

Object Details

• Alternative title: Der Neo-Sokratische Dialog: eine Lehrmethode für ethische Fragen und nachhaltige Entwicklung
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 240-252 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Postprint ; begutachtet ; In: Galea, Chris (Hg.): Teaching business sustainability : vol. 1, from theory to practice. 2004. S. 240-252. ISBN 978-1-874719-54-0

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Sheffield
• (who): Greenleaf Publ
• (when): 2004
• Creator: Littig, Beate
• Contributor: Galea, Chris

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-5415
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:52 PM CET