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Whenever two or more are gathered : relationship as the heart of ethical discourse / Michael M. Harmon and O.C. McSwite.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 1941- Harmon.
- Series:
- Public administration, criticism & creativity.
- Public administration : criticism and creativity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public administration--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Public administration.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Social skills.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study of the critical role of ethics and moral responsibility in the field of public administration, Michael M. Harmon and O. C. McSwite posit that administrative ethics, as presently conceived and practiced, is largely a failure, incapable of delivering on its original promise of effectively regulating official conduct in order to promote the public interest. They argue that administrative ethics is compromised at its very foundations by two core assumptions: that human beings act rationally and that language is capable of conveying clear, stable, and unambiguous principles
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; introduction; 1. Human Relationship: The Heart of Ethical Discourse; 2. The Case for Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: Personal Development as Ethical Guidance for Managers; 3. The Notorious Case of the Nonsense Lecture; 4. The Responsible Actor as "Tortured Soul": The Case of Horatio Hornblower; 5. in Praise of Harry Bosch: Saving Honest Sufferers from Administrative Ethics; 6. Moralism as Threat to the Possibility of Civil Society; 7. The Problem of Evil: What a Postmodern Analysis Reveals
- 8. Five Good Reasons Not to Act on Principle (Or, Why You Probably Can't Act on Principle, Anyway)9. Why Principles Can't Justify: A Pragmatist Commentary on the Affirmative Action Debate; 10. The Good, the Bad, and the Neurotic: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Impossibility of Administrative Ethics; 11. The Trouble with Truth: Two Challenges to Ethical Prohibitions against Lying; 12. The Brave New World of Relationship; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8536-3
- OCLC:
- 772845437
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