Re-Considering the System of Administrative Ethics with an Emphasis on Emmanuel Levinas's Other-Oriented Ethics
Subject Areas : Ethics and Islamic Education
Keywords: Bureaucracy, Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Responsibility, the Other, Teleology ,
Abstract :
From a phenomenological point of view, Levinas holds that the Other is the core to actualise all human relations. To him, there might be, so to say, a possibility of encounter in the realm of spatio-temporality; the Other is prior both axiologically and constitutively to every I. In this way, one cannot confine the Other to the I's totality of selfishness because without caring for the condition of constitution, the constituted lacks its existential, and epistemic origin. It lies certainly on the account that one can expose organisational and administrative systems (as a wide network of inter-personal relations) to serious phenomenological scrutiny. While re-cognising the continuous expansions of inter/inner organisational networks, a new multitude in reciprocal relations and demands has emerged which stands in need of its own regulations and ethical codes. These outputs pave the way for respecting clients' and clerks' rights, while accomplishing the organisation's ends. Therefore, the authors' main objective is necessarily to re-assess and re-consider the bureaucratic systems implemented in undeveloped, or developing countries; an objective which justifies our proceeding from doing phenomenology upon the extant inefficient system of administration in the globe. If admitted, the objective can extend itself toward becoming an efficient cultural innovation through its philosophical foundation-making. This article scrutinises the possibility of a more ethical encounter with the inferior and clients (as ends in themselves) by adopting Levinas's ethical approach. The raised theory has potentiality to effectively bestow centrality upon clients as the Others so additionally to observe the two parties' interests in organisational-administrative relations.
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