The paper proposes a query on social responsibility and its consistency in the knowledge society, in line with the ethics of discussion or ethical based on communication. The scope of the paper is to identify ways to construct responsibility adapted to the knowledge society. Knowledge society develop a new way of ethical expression, and what we want is a precise shaping of it as well as of modalities by which it can be made. Ethics of responsibility is based on an active responsibility for future collective action. From the perspective of the individual, collective responsibility for the future takes on a metaphysical and Utopian dimension in the absence of the principle of communication and sharing its responsibility in the process of obtaining consensus. Responsibility speech appears on the face of collective solidarity which makes the implicit responsibility to be a collective and social, individual responsibility is only bearer as a member of the community. Although the origin of collective responsibility remain the responsibility of the individual as the legal responsibility, the responsibility for the future is transferred to a collective entity able to face punishment for the harm caused - as for example to the environment - on the basis of the polluter pays principle. Organizing collective responsibility for the future is a tension between strategic rationality, economic and strategic-political question on the one hand and consensual communicative rationality specific communication ethics, on the other hand.
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