IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-58323-8_10.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Communicative Action II: Ethics and Communication

In: Management Communication

Author

Listed:
  • Thomas Klikauer

Abstract

Whenever labour unmasks distorted communication, it seeks to connect the world of work to communicative action and ideal speech which always means to also connect it to ethical and moral standards. Communication tends to be constructed as a technical tool such as a tube or a pipeline through which information is transferred until it enters the realm of ethics, morality and communicative ethics.338 Social and communicative relationships have strong moral and ethical connotations.339 The link between ethics and communication is nothing new. When human society moved out of the feudalist past, God and the Church were no longer able to define, create, use, and abuse moral standards.340 Once relieved from the metaphysics and mysticism of religion and church, modern societies had to find new modes of moral conduct.341 Humans could no longer rely on the pre-constructed — and in fact invented — and as somewhat higher portrayed authority. They had to set up their own moral and ethical standards.

Suggested Citation

  • Thomas Klikauer, 2008. "Communicative Action II: Ethics and Communication," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Management Communication, chapter 10, pages 160-178, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58323-8_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230583238_10
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58323-8_10. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.