JSB178 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Retributive Justice, Virtue Ethics, Procedural Justice
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Those characteristics that make a person a good public servant. Commitment to the system of government (1) in recognition that the public sector has a duty to uphold the system of government and the laws of the. State, commonwealth and local government, public service agencies, public sector entities and public officials: accept and value their duty to uphold the system of government and the laws of the state, the. Kant tried to create a scientific approach to ethics based on pure reason. He wanted a set of rules that could be relied upon the same way as newton"s laws of nature. Thus, reason demands that you must follow them. Unlike modern science, both kant and newton saw god as part of pure reason. There are two key characteristics of a categorical imperative: (1) universibility they must apply to anyone, anywhere and at any time (2) reversibility applies to both yourself and all others.
