How system dynamics education may enhance virtue-based Ethics

Pierre L. Kunsch ()
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Pierre L. Kunsch: Vrije Universiteit Brussel

EURO Journal on Decision Processes, 2016, vol. 4, issue 1, No 3, 33-52

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, the author’s teaching experience at a Belgian Business school gives ground to the tenet that system-dynamics (SD) education would serve virtue-based Ethics in a complex world. Information is first provided on a SD course in Brussels created by the initiator of the Euro Working Group on OR and Ethics, Professor Brans. It is then argued that this teaching may induce a cognitive transformation towards a holistic view on complex decision problems, letting emerge several meta-virtues: respect, attentiveness, and wisdom. This cognitive process is illustrated by some SD modelling examples from the classroom reflecting important young people’s preoccupations in today’s society.

Keywords: System dynamics; Education; Virtue-based ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s40070-016-0056-6

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