Most business ethics courses and textbooks confine themselves to considering specific cases and principles. For example, students are often given lists of ethical rules for in-class discussion and role-playing. This approach fails to provide a framework for understanding specific principles and should thus be changed to include abstract ethical theory. Which one of the following, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning above?
A: Abstract ethical theory is the most appropriate of any context for understanding specific principles.
B: An ethics course should acquaint students with a wide range of specific principles and appropriate applications.
C: People have no obligation to always behave ethically unless they are acquainted with abstract ethical theory.
D: Courses that concentrate mainly on role- playing are undesirable because students must adopt alien personae.
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
A