経済と倫理のディスコース : ドイツ語圏における経済倫理学説の新展開(<特集>経済学の規範理論)

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Since 1980s the theoretical discussion in the economic ethics has been activated in the German-speaking area, which dimension can be illustrated by the volume and diversity of its contributions. Its recent developmet seems to show a tendency to converge into several types of argument according to their methodological standpoints. This paper aims at comparing and characterizing them especially from such methodological viewpoints as the fundamental relation of the moral norms to the economy, the criterion for their legitimation, the place of their implementation and so on. In this way we can make up a typology of the German-speaking economic-ethical discourse with three theoretical species. First, the economic and institutionalist theory of moral represented typically by Karl Homann. This approach founds the moral norms on the economic rationality and intends to reduce the ethics itself to the economics. Secondly, the Aristotelian material ethics which should be applied to the economy in order to correct it on demand. This standpoint is represented by Peter Koslowski. Thirdly, the consensus-oriented discourse-ethics which radically questions normative conditions of the economic rationality and brings it forward for the public discourse. In this way of the reflexion and internal criticism, the St.Galler School of the economic ethics initiated by Peter Ulrich intends to integrate the economic and ethical rationality in order to transform the former to a broader rationality.