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How Can I Become a Responsible Subject? Towards a Practice-Based Ethics of Responsiveness

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Author

  • Sara Louise Muhr
  • Bernadette Loacker

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.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

265-277

Publication/Series

Journal of Business Ethics

Volume

90

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • responsiveness
  • limits of responsibility
  • ethics of practice
  • subjectification
  • giving account

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1573-0697