2021-03-19T18:12:35+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
CONTEXT OF ETHICS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Ethics, whether in an entire society, or in a social sub-system, evolves over a long period of time and is influenced, during its nurturance and growth, by a variety of environmental factors. Administrative ethics is no different. It is the product [...]
2021-03-22T10:58:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
INTRODUCTION:- ‘Ethics’ is a difficult term to define. The meaning, nature and scope of ethics have expanded in the course of time. ‘Ethics’ is integral to public administration. In public administration, ethics focuses on how the public administrator should question and reflect in order to be able to act responsibly. [...]
2021-03-12T16:29:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
The Views of Mill and Spencer:- This dream of social reform and the building of a more ideal society was basic to the thinking of JOHN STUART MILL also. He believed that the phenomena of social living conformed to fixed laws just as other phenomena do. However, he recognized that [...]
2021-03-10T15:51:15+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Ethics|
The Views of Spinoza, Locke, and Adam Smith :- The belief that the state is in some way a result of a social contract among men is also seen in the teachings of SPINOZA. In the natural state, he held, might makes right, and man has the right to do [...]
2021-03-05T02:33:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Ethics|
The State as Viewed by the Forerunners of the Renaissance:- It was at this time that man began to assert his own freedom and to challenge the power of rulers who held key positions in the state. The democratic spirit was afoot in the land, and absolute rule was being [...]
2021-03-05T01:26:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Ethics|
The State According to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle:- SOCRATES first asked the important questions involved in the problem. Xenophon, in his Memorabilia, recounts that Socrates never tired of asking of everyone he met, “What is a state? What is a statesman? What is a ruler over men? What is a [...]
2021-03-05T01:26:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Ethics|
Is society made for man or is man made for society? Is the state a divine creation which man must not question, or is it a result of a “social contract” among men and subject to change when it no longer serves men? How do the rulers get their authority? [...]
2021-02-28T00:29:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Ethics|
This Part 4 of the Ethics Series – What is Good and What is evil? Part I can be read from here – Click Here Part II can be read from here – Click Here Part III can be read from here – Click Here Note :- Not all names of [...]
2021-02-27T23:28:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
This Part 3 of the Ethics Series – What is Good and What is evil? Part I can be read from here – Click Here Part II can be read from here – Click Here Note :- Not all names of philosophers to be remembered or used. The idea is to [...]
2021-02-27T22:59:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
This Part 2 of the Ethics Series – What is Good and What is evil? Part I can be read from here – Click Here Note :- Not all names of philosophers to be remembered or used. The idea is to show the under current of thought and processes that [...]
