Personal Morality Does Not Apply
(Nagel)

"Because the office is supposedly shielded from the personal interests of the one who fills it, what he does in his official capacity seems also to be depersonalized. This nourishes the illusion that personal morality does not apply to it with any force, and that it cannot be strictly assigned to his moral account. The office he occupies gets between him and his depersonalized acts." (I)


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 27 September 2010