Richard Weiskopf and Hugh Willmott, Ethics as Critical Practice: The “Pentagon Papers”, Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality (2013) Organization Studies, 34 (4), pp. 469-493.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840612470256
Abstract
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.
Author Keywords
Derrida; Ellsberg; ethics; Foucault; parrhesia; practice theory; whistleblowing
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612470256
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