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Then, in 2013, after a high-level minister was found to have stashed funds in an overseas bank account, another
ethics
law was enacted, requiring that members of the government publicly disclose their investments and assets.
Ethics
and rules of justice change and have to adapt, as they have since the Enlightenment's ideals began breaking down the barriers of superstition, obscurantism, and demagogy that limited the realm of human freedom.
The unsurprising truth is that the company has long prioritized profit over ethics, treasuring the men who bring in the money, however badly they behave – or however flagrantly they violate the rights or dignity of their less lucrative colleagues.
Only America was (and potentially still is) able to fuse realism and idealism, self-interest and ethics, in its foreign policy.
Bloom’s more positive view of the role of reason fits with what I take to be the correct understanding of
ethics.
Ethics
and power can be mutually reinforcing.
But
ethics
can also be used instrumentally to increase power.
Machiavelli addressed the importance of
ethics
for leaders, but primarily in terms of the impression that visible displays of virtue made upon followers.
But there is another aspect of Acton’s dilemma besides the
ethics
of leaders: the demands of followers.
But
ethics
is not the icing on the cake; it is not merely an incidental addition to the global market economy.
The German post-war consensus is collapsing in key areas – history (attitudes toward WWII), geopolitics (attitudes toward Russia), the economy (attitudes toward the auto industry), and
ethics
(attitudes toward refugees) – and this is reflected in the fracturing of the political scene.
But, while leadership theorists and editorial writers tend to think that transformational foreign-policy officials are better in either
ethics
or effectiveness, the evidence does not support this view.
In 2018, initiatives for democratic reforms – including redistricting, stricter
ethics
standards, and broader voting rights – are in the process of being qualified across the country.
The world also wanted to see the US retaking the high road in reinforcing business
ethics
and integrity – so lacking under the last administration.
It undermines the
ethics
of solidarity through which all human rights exist.
Yet in Europe and North America, there is growing concern about the
ethics
of the way meat and eggs are produced.
But if we must have laws to bolster our ethics, their guiding principle should be that remuneration is always linked to the performance and services it is intended to compensate.
In response to the recurrence of well-publicized and highly damaging scandals in recent years, many universities and some entire national research funding agencies now convene “institutional review boards” to deal with breaches of what has come to be known as “research ethics.”
A useful simplification in addressing the potential work of research
ethics
panels is to consider two models of review: “inquisitorial” and “accusatorial.”
Otherwise, inquisitorial
ethics
reviews could come to be regarded as nothing more than intellectual vigilantism.
Indeed, Lomborg’s case would seem to support the accusatorial model of
ethics
review, which assumes that scientists adequately regulate their own affairs through normal peer-review procedures.
Perhaps, from the point of view of research ethics, that makes all the difference.
And workers of the future will require training in ethics, to help them navigate a world in which the value of human beings can no longer be taken for granted.
Given that brains are at their most malleable during childhood, beginning mental training in school would help to create a solid foundation for the kind of secular
ethics
that would contribute to the development of a more compassionate society.
Long before Western philosophers included animals in their ethics, Chinese philosophers like Zhuangzi said that love should permeate relations not only between humans, but between all sentient beings.
We will need new technologies, behaviors, and ethics, supported by solid evidence, to reconcile further economic development with environmental sustainability.
And all senior UN officials must file an annual financial-disclosure statement with the organization’s
ethics
office.
Does the government’s recent behavior reflect a commitment to strengthening business ethics, marking the start of a long-overdue regulatory catch-up process?
This is a responsibility that goes far beyond the
ethics
of mountain climbing.
But, beyond ethics, there are geopolitical considerations.
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