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He is credited with the politics-administration dichotomy although he never used the term.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The only institution in society able to enforce its decisions on all others through the legitimate use or threat of force.
What is government?
The mean between two vices.
What is a virtue?
"Act only on the maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
What is Kant's first formulation of the categorical imperative?
It is the sector of society that typically views ethics as a means to a profitable end.
What is the private sector?
Character-based theory of ethics.
What is virtue ethics?
It is the term Aristotle uses to explain the ultimate end which all humans strive towards.
What is eudaimonia (happiness/human flourishing)?
The direct transalation from Greek is the science of duty and responsibility.
What is deontology?
(deos = duty and logos = science or study of)
This is the principle of utility.
What is the act that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number?
It's a theory that states an act contrary to one's self-interest is unethical.
What is ethical egoism?
It is described by Kant as if-then imperatives.
What are hypothetical imperatives?
It is the ethical theory that states public administrators should act on their duty to promote the public interest by seeking a balance of virtue, principle, and positive consequences.
What is Svara's Ethics Triangle?
The preferences and priorities in our lives that give us meaning and motivation to make the decisions we do.
What are values?
These are the normative theories that tell us how we ought to act.
What are deontology and consequentialism?
"Act so that you treat humanity, both in your own person and in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means"
What is Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative?
The belief in multiple moralities that are equally correct even if they may conflict with one another. At the same time, there exist certain basic values that are shared by all people.
What is value-pluralism?
He stated "civil-service reform is thus but a moral preparation for what is to follow. It is clearing the moral atmosphere of official life by establishing the sanctity of public office as a public trust, and, by making the service unpartisan, it is opening the way for making it businesslike".
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
(The father of American public administration)
It is the most abstract branch of ethics also referred to as conceptual ethics, which concerned with ethical statements, meanings, and origins.
What is meta-ethics?
This person believed that public administrators should practice moral discipline and self-denial and just do the job they are tasked with otherwise the bureaucratic system will break down.
Who is Max Weber?
In the Friedrich-Finer debate, he was the one who believed public administrators should maintain political neutrality.
Who is Herman Finer?
By relying on human rationaility and the learned intellectual virtues.
How do we determine moral virtues (virtues of character)?
The 2 main differences between Bentham and Mill's utilitarianism.
What is quanitity vs. quality and act versus rule utilitarianism?
According to Bentham, this is the one-and-only intrinsic good that exists and all moral acts are judged on an instrumental basis to determine whether they help achieve this intrinsic good.
What is pleasure or happiness?
This is the person who believed public administrators have dual responsibilities – towards the public and the fellowship of knowledge.
Who is Carl Friedrich?
Who is John Stuart Mill?
(He was making the argument for a hierarchy of pleasures)