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On The Moral Responsibility Of Public Administration Officials

Posted on:2005-12-30Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X F LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360155956813Subject:Ethics
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We have get universal agreement on positional responsibilities of public administration officials based on position. When we talk over moral responsibilities of the public administration officials, the discussion haven't been stopped. In the history of development of administration, delimiting a boundary based on making a clear distinction between politics and administration, there are three stages of the discussion on whether the public administration officials should bear moral responsibilities.When there are a boundary based on making a clear distinction between politic and administration, people believe that the value of the public administration official is neutral. The public administration official is administrate machine as "tool". The fact of administration spur people on counter thinking moral responsibilities of the public administration official.Why should the public administration official bear moral responsibilities? The public administration official have not only the partial choose, but also had to confront the contradication between servicing for the public and servicing for oneself. The moral responsibility that we pass judgment on responsibility according to morality isn't one kind of responsibilities. Which responsibility can become the moral responsibility, and how to making a clear distinction to the moral responsibility, are the important precondition to realize the moral responsibility of the public administration official. The forerunner had fallen into difficult position when they made a clear distinction to the subjective moral responsibility based on subjectivity and objectivity. We must search another way that can ensure to realize the fundamental moral responsibility and help to develop the moral responsibility. So, we make aclear distinction to moral responsibilities between the obligation and ideal.When the public administration official realize his moral responsibilities, he had to be confronted with kinds of puzzlements including role, object, basic, tendency, and kinds of hinders including pluralistic way to get power, ant function of bureaucracy for installing power, elasticity of performing free power, and so on. It is possible to lead to ethic compromise that influence realizing moral responsibilities of public administration official.How to realize moral responsibilities of public administration officials? At first, we ought to think the dominant principles of realizing moral responsibilities of public administration officials. Monophyletic principle was replaced by pluralistic principle, because there are three demands of role to public administration officials in modern society: 1. The public administration officials who be separated with the citizen role of oneself; 2. One of public administration officials in public administrate organization; 3. The arbitrator who deal with the dispute in the public.So, we should take three dominant principle: 1. Treating the public: "Demo-centrism"; 2. In the organization: "Democratic Centralism"; 3. Between the public: "Impartial".The ways include the control external and internal of realizing moral responsibilities of public administration officials. The external control based on evil of humanity include ethic legislation, setting up rule, supervising power, building environment of culture, giving praise adopting protective measures, and so on. The internal control that based on good of humanity include training administrate ability, strengthening mental quality, promoting the values, fostering moral emotion, cultivating moral character, and so on.When the people who study ethics choose one way between the control external and internal partially, they don't reject the other or...
Keywords/Search Tags:Public Administration officials, Moral Responsibility, legitimacy
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