1. Joseph Sachs points out that ancient warriors, at least as depicted by Homer, also engaged in persuasive speaking. See the editor’s “Introduction” in J. Sachs (2009) Plato’s Gorgias and Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Translation, Glossary and Introductory Essay (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing), 2–3.
2. Plato, Theaetetus 174. In general, the references that I make in this book to ancient and medieval texts do not rely on a specific translation. For that reason, I have provided the Stephanus pagination widely used in modern translations for references to Plato’s dialogues, while I typically have drawn from (1961) The Collected Dialogues of Plato ed. E. Hamilton and H. Cairns (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
3. For summaries of business ethics as an academic field, see G. Enderle (1996) “Towards Business Ethics as an Academic Discipline,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 6, 43–65.
4. P. Werhane and R. Freeman (1999) “Business Ethics: The State of the Art,” International Journal of Management Review, 1, 1–16.
5. C. Cowton (2008) “On Setting the Agenda for Business Ethics Research,” in C. Cowton and M. Haase (eds) Trends in Business and Economic Ethics (New York: Springer), 11–30.