Ethical Methodology

Ethical Methodology

Introduction

Public policy is always and inevitably linked to an ethical position. This position may be explicit or not, may be entered in the analysis model chosen, the type of rationality attributed to those involved in it or move to the study of the constraints faced by the proposed course of action, but in any case it is inevitable. The purpose of the paper was to provide arguments to emphasize the importance of incorporating the study of ethics to public policy analysis in a systematic and deliberate way, in order to avoid the potential risk (and often verified) that absence can generate both the design and implementation of courses of action chosen by the State. These risks relate inter alia the use of public power for private interests to promote, to the negative externalities that occur when studying a single problem on the public agenda, without reference to public space in its whole, or blunder in the design chosen by a particular statement of values, which does not correspond to the possibilities of success of public policy.

Discussion

Main Themes in the Paper

The article discusses that if a public policy pertains to the enactment under a business, which is a significant aspect of the public, then the methodology will apply to such a process. In addition, if an organization seeks to jump into a public debate in a pluralistic society such as ours, then it can adhere to the methodology of the paper to craft its argument. The methodology will not use god as the ultimate concern. However, it will develop another supreme good. The research paper makes provision for alternative views of ultimate concern, supreme good, or philosophical construct. On the other hand, an analyst for whom business ethics is restricted to legal ethics, the methodology discussed will not be useful ...