How Can I Become a Responsible Subject? Towards a Practice-Based Ethics of Responsiveness
Författare
Summary, in English
Approaches to business ethics can be roughly divided into two streams: aEuro(1)codes of behavior' and aEuro(1)forms of subjectification', with code-oriented approaches clearly dominating the field. Through an elaboration of poststructuralist approaches to moral philosophy, this paper questions the emphasis on codes of behaviour and, thus, the conceptions of the moral and responsible subject that are inherent in rule-based approaches. As a consequence of this critique, the concept of a practice-based aEuro(1)ethics of responsiveness' in which ethics is never final but rather always aEuro(1)to come', is investigated. In such an approach the ethical self is understood as being continuously constituted within power/knowledge relations. Following this line, we ask how one can become a responsible subject while also acknowledging certain limits of full responsibility. We thereby explore responsibility as a considered but unconditional openness in response to the other.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
265-277
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Business Ethics
Volym
90
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Business Administration
Nyckelord
- responsiveness
- limits of responsibility
- ethics of practice
- subjectification
- giving account
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1573-0697