Publication details

Sensibility in applied ethics

Authors

BORN Rainer GATARIK Eva

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Human affairs
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Web De Gruyter
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2017-0039
Field Management and administrative
Keywords ethics; sensibility; rules; model-theoretic systemic Language-Information-Reality (LIR); analytical philosophy
Description Rule systems are used every day to share experience, pre-existing knowledge, beliefs and ethical rules, and to provide instructions for future action. This article expands and builds upon an approach pioneered by Julius M. Moravcsik to argue that ethics cannot be completely codified into a rigid set of rules, because any such set lacks a misapplication-correcting sensibility. Thus, an ethics that is transferred purely by means of a rule-set is incomplete and thus cannot be used reliably to guide future action. The balancing sensibility is formed out of pre-existing expert knowledge and takes account of the limitations of rule-sets in specific contexts. Moravcsik’s approach is then expanded by incorporating it into a holistic framework for the analysis, guidance and development of actions to be taken to support the emergence, selection and implementation of solutions for a sustainable future. This approach has profound implications for managers and organisers in new or critical situations.

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