People want leaders to be moral and to exude ethics.

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Mudiyettu serves as an important cultural site for transmission of traditional values, ethics, moral codes and aesthetic norms of the community to the next generation, thereby ensuring its continuity and relevance in present times.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Since the financial crisis, several business schools have introduced ethics courses addressing the moral shortcomings of convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff or added lessons on the social implications of the mortgage meltdown.

WSJ: Catholic University of America Mixes Business With Religious Values

The moral imperative, in terms of an environmental ethics today, is to support the regenerative capacities of nature while restraining the excessive demands of our consumerist culture.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

As a means of rewaking morality in this climate of reduced moral sensibility, he says that we need to humanise our ethics, that is, to root it in human needs and values.

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The poll, commissioned by BBC Religion and Ethics, asked young people to choose their top moral issue, with options including buying ethical products, being faithful to a partner and caring for the environment.

BBC: Caring for family 'top moral issue for young'

The goals of maximizing profit and fulfilling a moral agenda conflict more often than they complement one another, and investors who want to put ethics first have turned out to be relatively few.

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In a short and sweet post at Psychology Today, Scott James, author of An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics (and a friend of mine from grad school) offers a summary of the contemporary moral nativist view inspired by Noam Chomsky and John Rawls.

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If her talk of ethics sounds fluffy, recall that in 1759 Adam Smith earned his reputation by publishing "The Theory of Moral Sentiments, " in which he accounted for the emergence of sympathy and moral judgments.

WSJ: Cultural Conversation: The New Theories of Moral Sentiments