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P.A. ETH-TALK: IS IT ETHICAL?

P.A. ETH-TALK: IS IT ETHICAL?

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	The study and discussion of ethics in public administration can be dysfunctional and even harmful without a sophisticated understanding of the field and ethics.  This article stresses that those engaged in discussing ethics should understand epistemology, focus on the practical, and be very circumspect about imposing a particular ethical prescriptive on others. 
 
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	P.A. eth-talk (the study and discussion of Public Administration ethics) can be dysfunctional, and it is harmful to public administration practice and thinking-ethics properly being at the heart of the p.a. discipline-not to identify the criteria that can distinguish healthy from dysfunctional eth-talk.  This paper illustrates these two claims by discussing three among the minimal criteria that healthy P.A. eth-talk should meet.  Most of this material was published earlier (e.g., Farmer, 1995, 1999).  The first criterion is that healthy P.A. eth-talk should be realistic in its recognition of the epistemological nature of the ethical, and that ethics that are unrealistic are dysfunctional.  Second, healthy eth-talk should be comprehensively practical, avoiding a constricted view of practicality.  Third, healthy eth-talk should incorporate a hesitant posture toward imposing ethical prescriptions on others.  A practical implication of this paper is that, wonderful as

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