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How Business Shapes Us
Celeste Harvey is associate professor of philosophy at College of Saint Mary in Omaha, where she teaches and writes on applied and normative ethics, social and political philosophy, and luxury. Her work has focused on virtue, the concerns of women, and business and the common good. Much of her recent scholarship centers on the Economy of Communion.
Here she discuss how business shapes the souls of those who engage in it. No one is left unchanged by business.
- How does the approach that 'business is just business, and I have to set aside my personal values when I am doing business' affect your soul and shape you?
- Do you sometimes feel schizophrenic in terms of needing to check your personal values at the door when you are working at your job?
- What are ways you can live out your personal values through your work? Have you found alignment between your employer and your own values?
- What are ways that you can see work shapes you and molds you? Are you happy about how it has done that in your life?