Entre cohérence et cohésion : humain ou performant? L’organisation dans une perspective éthique

Abstract

Ethics in organizations cannot overview the question of the quality of human relationship within a philosophical anthropology. Thinking social work leads inevitably to integrate what has been developed in and on the philosophy of “caring” and the inherent vulnerability of the human being. This prospect might be enhanced by the philosophy of the transcendental subject developed in the phenomenological tradition.
Vulnerability as well as the claim to responsibility and reciprocity in social life are rooted in that transcendental character of the human subject and they might be expressed in a personal story to tell. Integrating Gift in social life may also express and honor that same transcendental dimension of the human being. Given that social work implies the welcoming and the recognition of subjects as subjects, Paul Ricœur’s ethical prospect will show the fertility of that conception of the subject as a transcendental Self, of narrative identity and Gift.