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| − | Honor comes before ethics because a person without honor has no moral compass about what is good and bad. Honor is a particularly apt choice for emphasis in a text of public administration because, from ancient times, to be trusted with the public’s business required honorable administrators. Public administrators have a special moral obligation to the people they serve, to the “regime values” of the system in which they work, and to the Constitution. Western thinking about honor dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. Codes of honor evolved in the military. Honor was, and is, something that a soldier was supposed to uphold and even die for. Today it remains one of the core influences on human behavior. | + | '''Honor''' comes before ethics because a person without honor has no moral compass about what is good and bad. Honor is a particularly apt choice for emphasis in a text of public administration because, from ancient times, to be trusted with the public’s business required honorable administrators. Public administrators have a special moral obligation to the people they serve, to the “regime values” of the system in which they work, and to the Constitution. Western thinking about honor dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. Codes of honor evolved in the military. Honor was, and is, something that a soldier was supposed to uphold and even die for. Today it remains one of the core influences on human behavior. |
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Latest revision as of 13:42, 29 September 2017
Honor comes before ethics because a person without honor has no moral compass about what is good and bad. Honor is a particularly apt choice for emphasis in a text of public administration because, from ancient times, to be trusted with the public’s business required honorable administrators. Public administrators have a special moral obligation to the people they serve, to the “regime values” of the system in which they work, and to the Constitution. Western thinking about honor dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. Codes of honor evolved in the military. Honor was, and is, something that a soldier was supposed to uphold and even die for. Today it remains one of the core influences on human behavior.