A Worldview Perspective

This paper plans to summarize and provide a critical analysis of the journal article “Modernism, Christianity, and Business Ethics: A Worldview Perspective” written by David Kim, Dan Fisher, and David McCalman. In this article, the authors address the issue that there are little-to-no standards of ethical or “good” behavior within business ethics (Kim, Fisher, & McCalman, 2009, p. 115).

Summary

This first section the authors bring up that continued “corporate ethics violations” have created a need for discussion of “moral issues” in the business world, including that of “corporate social responsibly” and indoctrination in managerial programs of ethical practices (Kim et al., 2009, p. 115). The authors point to the growing trend of business leaders following Christian practices, such as the founder of Chick-fil-A, Truett Cathey (Kim et al., 2009, p. 115). The authors then question how modernism affects the mainstream culture and marginalized the usefulness of worldview ethics that could provide “insight and guidance” to researchers and businesses alike (Kim et al., 2009, p. 116).

116-117). The authors argue that modernism can find its roots in the Enlightenment era (Kim et al., 2009, p. 117). At the start of the Enlightenment, work was founded in Biblical perspectives, and it was not until the nineteenth century that the Biblical perspective begin to be phased out (Kim et al., 2009, p. 117). The phasing into a non-Biblical standpoint was in part caused by the work of Charles Darwin (Kim et al., 2009, p. 117). Later, arguments are made that modernism no longer aligned with the roots of Christianity, and that all truths rested within scientific reasoning (Kim et al., 2009, p.