La philosophie au secours des rapports de responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise, ou comment dépasser les limites d’un discours « aphilosophique » sur la responsabilité : Première Partie – Responsabilité et humanisation du monde

Abstract

Corporate moral discourse too often evolves without any philosophical foundation. It builds up its own rules and limitations of social acceptability. It does not bother with philosophical traditions. Corporate moral discourse then becomes « aphilosophical ». Nonetheless, it could benefit from a connectedness with various philosophies. In this article, we will see how some 20th century philosophies could shed new light on corporate moral responsibility and humanizing processes of the whole world : John Rawls, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Emmanuel Mounier. The analysis of fifteen (15) corporate social responsibility/sustainable development reports from North America (USA and Canada), Europe (United Kingdom, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain) and Asia (Japan) will show the limitations of corporate moral discourse, from a perspective of conceptual unity
and axiological coherence.