ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author puts forward neo-Socratic dialogue (NSD) as didactic method to communicate fundamental ethical questions about sustainable development in business training and enterprises. Furthermore, she gives an overview on this method and its application to teaching the ethics of sustainable development. In addition to describing the conceptional background to the NSD, the author presents a case study of an NSD conducted with an interdisciplinary group of students at the University of Vienna, Austria. The students' comments on the NSD were very positive. The students greatly appreciated the process of thinking carefully through each statement in detail. In principle, there are two ways of linking NSD to a business context, depending on the participants' corporate working experience. Under the conditions, the NSD can be useful instrument to carry out ethical reflections on the concept of sustainability in business context. The NSD was also presented as method for working on the ethical implications of sustainable development with philosophical laypeople.
