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The Ethics of Responsibility – Responsibility for Future Generations

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Tyburski W.

Studies in Global Ethics and Global Education

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2017

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issue 7

3-12

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The basic issue addressed in this paper is responsibility conceived in the perspective of global responsibility and, within its framework, responsibility for future generations. In the face of growing threats and crisis phenomena the category of responsibility has gained a fundamental meaning. Responsibility may be considered in the context of the past and presence, but it should also be analyzed as referring to the future. The paper will elucidate main understanding of responsibility; the notion and value of responsibility will be analyzed in close relation to the notions and values of solidarity, justice, and community thinking and action.

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CSR i etyka przekonań

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Soin M.

Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym

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2019

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vol. 22

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issue 2

55-69

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Examples of scandals related to exposing the unethical practices of companies which are classified as CSR leaders include cases where their declarations on undertaking social responsibility, as well as spending a lot of money on spectacular social campaigns and then rigorously reporting it in the appropriate documents, are accompanied by acts of abusing workers’ and environmental rights, misleading customers, i.e., abusing consumer rights, and finally “tax optimisation”, which generates measurable losses to the local communities. These cases raise the question about the reason for corporate social responsibility not being immune to abuse or opportunities to treat it as merely an image-related issue. The problem is presented using Max Weber’s widely known typology. It contrasts the ethics of conviction (ruled by the principle of intentionally keeping to the rules which have been adopted as being right) with the ethics of responsibility for the consequences of actions, including those that were undertaken in good faith but which have unintentional consequences. The usefulness of Weber’s typology when considering CSR problems becomes evident when we notice that the dominant interpretation of the corporate social responsibility concept, with its characteristic emphasis on voluntariness and positivity of actions within CSR, brings this concept closer to the ethics of conviction model. Voluntary actions in the field of CSR should go beyond carrying out regular goals of economic activities, i.e., the maximisation of profits, by providing good quality, desirable goods and services. However, what should be considered a prosocial activity –and thus, social responsibility –remains unclear in some companies. In accordance with the thesis of the paper, this ambiguity is one of the important factors that create discrepancies between declarations and real corporate activities. As we can see, the focus on voluntarily doing good which has been adopted in the current interpretation of CSR pre-empts the pursuit to avoid bad practices, both in theory and in the implementation of CSR programmes. Moreover, the CSR-dominant interpretation leads to a particular terminological confusion and replaces the companies’ responsibility towards concrete stakeholders, which is appropriate for the economic activity, with an abstractly understood responsibility towards an abstractly understood society. In this sense, the conceptual analysis of the relationship between CSR and ethics reveals that one of the important sources of problems with CSR is joining this concept with an unsuitable model of ethics. This is not because of the alleged defects of the ethics of conviction, appreciated by Weber, among other thinkers, but because it is a model that, in fact, is not suitable for business ethics. If the ethics of conviction is private, then it cannot be used to regulate social relations. In conclusion, it may be stated that, paradoxically, a dominant way of thinking about the social responsibility of corporations leads more to separation than to bringing together ethics and business. CSR, in its current form, cannot be an efficient means of implementing ethical objectives in business because it defines the issue of social responsibility as a sphere of private beliefs and arbitrary interpretations. Therefore, it undermines the relevance of the proper and socially significant notion of responsibility for economic activities and their consequences. Of course, the CSR concept can and should be modified; the question remains as to whether eliminating the elements that bring it closer to the ethics of conviction does not actually translate into giving it up entirely.

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Środowisko naturalne jako przedmiot odpowiedzialności menedżera

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Brzustewicz P.

Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym

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2011

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vol. 14

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issue 2

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The Ethics of Responsibility as a Way to the Future

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Drożdż M.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2013

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vol. 3

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issue 1

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The basic concept in the philosophy of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker is the concept of time. Playing the dominant role in the thought and philosophy of Weizsäcker, the concept is the point of departure for an attempt to find ways to cognize and recreate the unity of Nature, to understand “the unity of physics” and its reconstruction in the neo-Kantian spirit, as well as seek and analyse conditions of the possibilities of science and its ethical dimension. In this context Weizsäcker analyses relations between the structure of time and the ethical responsibility of a man practising science. The present study aims to demonstrate the basic elements of this relation as the foundation of the ethics of scientific research. Responsible scientific research is only possible when men operating within the field are guided by objective principles of the ethics of responsibility.

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Wkład Hansa Jonasa w filozofię odpowiedzialności

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Dzwonkowska D.

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae

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2007

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vol. 5

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issue 1

143-156

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Article presents the concept of responsibility in Hans Jonas’s philosophy. Biocentric character of his ethics gives it new outlook to the phenomenon of responsibility. It seems that mankind cannot anymore afford ignoring environmental problems. And Jonas’s imperative of responsibility is the answer to the ecological crisis. It is based on Kant’s imperative, but new imperative goes beyond anthropocentric ethics to biocentric ethics. It aimed at preserving all forms of life, life in its rich diversity. Its basic motivation is fear of progressing destruction of nature, this fear, when dosed properly by politicians, leads to undertaking actions aiming at preserving nature from man’s activity. It seems that taking responsibility for nature may be way to preserve it.

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Socjologia w literaturze. Casus Wojny końca świata Mario Vargasa Llosy

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Ćwikła P.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2012

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issue 2(205)

47-80

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The purpose of this essay is to propose a view of the world described in the novel as a sociological object. The literary work subject to analysis is Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The War of the End of the World”, with Lewis A. Coser’s remarks referred to as guidelines on how a sociologist may do his or her research on a reality presented in a novel. The author wants to point out that it may be useful to recur to elements of the sociological theories in order better to understand the social phenomena and processes portrayed in literature. Such procedure may enrich the interpretation of the novel, at the same time being not without interest for science.

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Celem szkicu jest propozycja spojrzenia na świat przedstawiony w powieści jako przedmiot refleksji socjologicznej. Dziełem literackim, które zostało poddane analizie, jest Wojna końca świata Mario Vargasa Llosy, a główną wskazówką wytyczającą sposób, w jaki socjolog może badać rzeczywistość powieściową, są spostrzeżenia Lewisa A. Cosera. Chcemy zwrócić uwagę, że sięgnięcie po elementy teorii socjologicznych może okazać się przydatne w pełniejszym rozumieniu ukazanych w fabularnym świecie zjawisk i procesów społecznych. Z jednej strony wzbogaca to interpretację, z drugiej – urozmaica zasób przypadków interesujących dla nauki.

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Wspólnota w dyskursie pedagogiki i edukacji międzykulturowej

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Cudowska A.

Edukacja Międzykulturowa

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2022

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vol. 18

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issue 3

33-45

PL

W artykule przedstawiono wspólnotę jako kategorię wpisaną w narrację pedagogiki międzykulturowej, jako interdyscyplinarnej subdyscypliny pedagogicznej i praktyki edukacyjnej. Opisano pojęcie wspólnoty i socjologiczne ujęcia tej kategorii, eksponując różnorodność podejść i możliwych interpretacji epistemologicznych. Wskazano na wspólne cechy różnych definicji wspólnoty: podzielane przez członków wspólnoty cele i normy, uznawane wartości i akceptowane środki ich realizacji. Zwrócono szczególną uwagę na koncepcję wspólnoty w komunitaryzmie, który tożsamość jednostki traktuje jako pochodną tradycji, przyswajanych przez nią w toku socjalizacji i funkcji społecznych, jakie pełni. Ukazano wspólnotę jako przestrzeń relacji międzyludzkich, w którą immanentnie wpisana jest kategoria Innego. Relację Ja z Innym odniesiono do źródłowej odpowiedzialności, którą Ja odkrywa, jako sferę wolności. Opisano znaczenie gościnności, sprawiedliwości i twórczego rozumienia w dialogicznej relacji z Innym. Wyeksponowano także otwartość na odmienność, gotowość jej uznania i szacunek dla Innego, jako niezbywalny element konstytuujący wspólnotę i umożliwiający osiąganie pozaegoistycznego Dobra.

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The article presents the community as a category inscribed in the narrative of intercultural pedagogy, as an interdisciplinary pedagogical subdiscipline and educational practice. The concept of community and sociological approaches to this category were described, highlighting the variety of approaches and possible epistemological interpretations. Common features of various definitions of a community were indicated: goals and norms shared by members of the community, recognized values and accepted means of achieving them. Particular attention was paid to the concept of community in communitarianism, which treats the identity of an individual as a derivative of tradition assimilated by him in the course of socialization and the social functions he performs. The community was shown as a space of interpersonal relations in which the category of the Other was immanently inscribed. The relationship of the Self with the Other was referred to the source responsibility that the Self discovers as the sphere of freedom. The importance of hospitality, justice and creative understanding in the dialogical relationship with the Other was described. Openness to dissimilarity, readiness to recognize it and respect for the Other, as an inalienable element constituting a community and enabling the achievement of non-selfish Good, were also exposed.

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Transcendentalno-pragmatyczne uzasadnienie etyki dyskursu i współodpowiedzialności Karla-Otto Apla

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Filipiak M., Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris

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2017

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vol. 39 (4)

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The aim of the article is to analyze the discourse ethics postulated by Karl-Otto Apel. This is an original project of the German philosopher, which is a result of linguistic, hermeneutic and pragmatic transformation of transcendental philosophy. In this form the discourse ethics is the embodiment of the idea of the communication turn in philosophy and thus grains the notion of prima philosophia in Apel’s considerations. Transcendental and communication aspect of ethics allows Apel to formulate a postulate of validation of not only specific situational ethical norms but also the principle of ethics itself. The idea is reflected in the postulate of final justification. The dialectics of the ideal and real communication community is, on the one hand, to overcome the aporias of transcendental philosophy and, on the other hand, to retain its fundamental claims. Discourse ethics and coresponsibility are the ultimate response to the threats of the contemporary world, resulting from globalization or technicisation of life.

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