Ethics as Critical Practice: The “Pentagon Papers”, Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality

This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in which subjects (re)define their relations to self and others. Situating this conception of e...

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Published inOrganization studies Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 469 - 493
Main Authors Weiskopf, Richard, Willmott, Hugh
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.04.2013
Sage
Sage Publications Ltd
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Decision Making
Derrida
Derrida, Jacques
Ellsberg
Ethics
Ethik
Foucault
Foucault, Michel
Morality
Organisationstheorie
Organizational behavior
Organizational behaviour
Otherness
Studies
Truth
Whistleblowing
United States > US
practice theory
whistleblowing
Ellsberg
parrhesia
Derrida
ethics
Foucault
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Summary:This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in which subjects (re)define their relations to self and others. Situating this conception of ethics in the context of practice theory, we draw upon ideas of responsible decision-making (Derrida) and truth-telling (Foucault) to examine Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of the “Pentagon Papers” as illustrative of ethics as critical practice.
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ISSN:0170-8406
1741-3044
DOI:10.1177/0170840612470256