This week’s episode is about institutional leadership and ethics.  By using the Trolley problem, we go through some of the moral reasoning frameworks to answer the question “Would you kill the fat man?”.  I also discuss the use of codes of conduct and organizational ethos on promoting ethical culture.

References

Ariely, Dan. The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2013.

Edmonds, David. Would You Kill the Fat Man?: the Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Harvard Justice. Harvard Justice, March 22, 2017. http://justiceharvard.org/.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Accessed September 27, 2020. https://plato.stanford.edu/.