ÉTICA COMO COMPETÊNCIA: INTERSEÇÕES ENTRE A ADMINISTRAÇÃO E A FILOSOFIA

Abstract

This essay addresses the concept of ethics as a competence. It highlights the essential presence of philosophy in the epistemological and methodological dimensions of the social sciences, including those that shape the field of public administration and people management in particular. Philosophy is presented as philosophical doing and has highlighted its essential function of producing concepts, shifting the emphasis from its historical dimension. The concepts of morality and ethics are presented according to the Aristotelian, utilitarian and deontological perspectives. The Aristotelian current is the basis for the essential understanding that is extracted from the competences examined. The reflections suggest the need for further conceptual deepening in order to clarify the distinction between moral conduct and ethical judgment, as well as advancing in the proposition of methodologies that allow for expanding the presence of contributions from the utilitarian and deontological perspectives, also, the valuation of the commissions of ethics as deliberative, formulating and formative instances.