| 期刊全稱(chēng) | Adam Smith’s Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair | | 期刊簡(jiǎn)稱(chēng) | Lessons in Business | | 影響因子2023 | Rosa Slegers | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/145/144509/144509.mp4 | | 發(fā)行地址 | Provides an innovative perspective on business ethics education.Shows the role of Adam Smith‘s moral sentiments in contemporary business ethics.Provides a literary business case study exploring the te | | 學(xué)科分類(lèi) | Issues in Business Ethics | | 圖書(shū)封面 |  | | 影響因子 | .According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public pursuits. “The great secret of education,”?Smith writes, “is to direct vanity to proper objects:” this peculiar vice can serve as a stepping-stone to virtue. How can this transformation be accomplished and what might go wrong along the way? What exactly .is. vanity and how does it factor into our personal and professional lives, for better and for worse?.This book brings Smith’s .Theory of Moral Sentiments. into conversation with William Makepeace Thackeray’s .Vanity Fair .to offer an analysis of vanity and the objects (proper and otherwise) to which it may be directed. Leading the way through the literary case study presented here. .is Becky Sharp, theambitious and cunning protagonist of Thackeray’s novel. Becky is joined by a number of other 19.th. Century literary heroines – drawn from the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront? and George Eliot – whose feminine (and feminist) perspec | | Pindex | Book 2018 |
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