RT Article
T1 John Meriwether and the Promethean Hero: A Cautionary Tale in Financial Ethics
JF Teaching business ethics
VO 6
IS 1
SP 27
OP 43
A1 Koehn, Daryl
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2002
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1801633207
AB Ethicists typically understand unethical actsto be those that either violate social normsand mores or that prevent people fromdeveloping the character needed to thrive. This paper looks to a classical source – the mythof Prometheus' creation of man – to explore analternative understanding of what it means toact unethically. On this classical view,acting in an evil fashion is less a matter of asingle violation of some norm or of developingan unwholesome character and more a matter ofworldview or outlook. Evil enters the worldwhen humans cease to understand themselves inrelation to the divine and cast themselves asgods. The rise and fall of the Long-TermCapital Hedge Fund (LTCM) and its legendaryfounder John Meriwether nicely illustrates thehuman attempt to supplant the gods and itsuntoward consequences.
K1 Prometheus
K1 Hubris
K1 Evil
DO 10.1023/A:1014254523503