Ethics in Public Administration: Theoretical Foundation

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10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.87How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethics; Public Administration; Public Administration Ethics; Theoretical Foundation of Ethics

Abstract

The main purpose in this article is to study the theoretical foundation of ethics in public administration. Methodology used in the study is a documentary research. The study found that there are three main groups of the theoretical foundation of ethics in public administration: (1) Rule-based ethics, based on rules and duties, proposed and supported by key philosophers or scholars: Immanuel Kant, John Rohr, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Gerald Pops and Thomas Povlak. (2) Result-based ethics, based on maximizing utility, proposed and supported by major philosophers or scholars: Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Vincent Ostrom. (3) Virtue-based ethics, based on good characteristics, proposed and supported by main philosophers or scholars: Aristotle, Alasdair MacIntyre, Terry Cooper, and David K. Hart. In this paper, the author has suggested that virtue-based ethics approaches more reasonable for public administration than rule-based and result-based ethics approaches.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Prayote Songklin
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TI  - Ethics in Public Administration: Theoretical Foundation
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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