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| | Endowment gift to fund classes that explore ethical reasoning |
 | | The connection is philanthropist Bowen "Buzz" McCoy, a Stanford alumnus and businessman, who, when mountain climbing with other trekkers, encountered the barefoot sadhu, nearly naked and suffering from hypothermia, at 15,500 feet. |
 | | McCoy, who has taught ethics at graduate business and theological schools, would wrestle with guilt over the unknown fate of the sadhu as well as the realization that he had "literally walked through a classic moral dilemma without fully thinking through the consequences," he wrote in the Harvard Business Review in 1983. |
 | | With his wife, Barbara, McCoy recently gave $1 million to the Ethics in Society Program for an endowment to help support courses—such as the psychology of morality class taught by Benoit Monin, assistant professor of psychology—that focus on the development of ethical reasoning. |
| news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/march9/ethics-030905.html (777 words) |
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