Narrativity and Hermeneutics in Professional Ethics: In Praise of Imagination  

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Thomasset, Alain

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 3 no. 4 (Dec. 1996), page 168-174.
Topik: Narratives; Hermeutics; Ethical Discussion; Ethical Decision
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The two quotations just cited insist on the ‘duty’ of confidence which such memory should evoke today. Likewise, memory is an invitation to reflect on the collective ‘sense’ of action. Memory has become an ethical object; the history of business, as a human collectivity, has become a component of action. Though at risk of being manipulated or used instrumentally for immediate business objectives (or personnel management), the current fashion for ‘memoirs’ or ‘business histories’ in fact illustrates a truly ethical concern. It reveals a growing awareness of the necessity for taking into account the imaginative and affective dimension that condition the deliberations and decisions of agents in a social and economic organisation. Above and beyond the deontological rules and moral principles, which are habitual touchstones of decision-making, I would like to show that professional ethics today should also address this imaginative dimension which, consciously or not, precedes and accompanies every considered decision. There is a need for what I would call a ‘poetics of morality’ that would describe what it is that gives rise to our deepest actions and moral capacities, even before considering the law and rational moral reasoning. For this undertaking, hermeneutics and narrativity are indispensable instruments.

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