Les apports de la phénoménologie de Jan Patočka à la question de l’éthique au travail

Abstract

In this article, we present Jan Patočka's philosophy and his contributions to business ethics. This author helps us to go out of some confusion between thought and given ethics. His approach opens toward a new definition of ethics at work, which is both “a-subjective” and experiment of freedom. The presentation and comments of these two dimensions correspond to the first parts of this paper. In the third part, we analyse a specific character of the world in Patočka's phenomenology: it cannot be divided. It appears that the consequences are that ethics can be profiled as the horizon of the world. In conclusion, ethics at work is inseparable of the notion of humanity.