The Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative, the European SPES, and the Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest organized an international webinar series entitled “Humanities for Business” from October 11–16, 2021.
The course presented the grand traditions of the humanities as an untapped resource for business problems. At a time when the humanities are viewed as in decline or under threat of collapse altogether, the course enacted and extended the best of the Humanities as regards to prevailing challenges within the complex realities of our current cultural moment. Topics of the webinars included values, trust, responsibility, ethics, leadership, selfrealization, spirituality, narrative, literature, music, and the arts in relation and applied to current business challenges.
Thirty-one participants attended the webinars from France, Hungary, India, Israel, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the USA. The webinar series helped the participants to understand how the humanities can contribute to the renewal of business and other human professions through deep existential-spiritual questioning, to developing a broader view of the purpose of human life alongside today’s social and ecological challenges, and to improving human creativity and sensitivity in the face of big ethical dilemmas in personal and professional life.