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In the twentieth century, naturalism began to face rejection as most philosophers of

the modern era began to assume that their topics of discussion were in line with the sciences

in other words that ethics can be understood and explained in natural science. This is

generally referred to as ethical naturalism. Ethical naturalism begins with the identity of

goodness and how our interests can be satisfied through the preferred ways. An example is

finding ways of cubing our many desires so that they do not lead us into doing or acquiring

things outside the procedural scope. Ethics therefore is the good, the virtuous, the accepted,

the allowed, the correct, the recommended, the approved ways of doing things and activities.

Moreover, to some extent, ethics has depended on the human consciousness to survive and

dominant.

Aristotle, Socrates and Plato determined that ethics is the act that promotes one’s long

term benefit producing a great and stable balance of the good deeds over the bad ones. But

again it only the good deeds that count and that the outcome should not matter much than the

nature of the act (Heidenheimer, Arnold 2007).

Ethics on its own has some advantages and importance in society. First and foremost is to

stop and if not minimize the misuse of government office, embezzlement of public funds and

misuse of power by those individuals that hold high offices in governments. Ethics also helps

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prevent or further practices of political corruption likes bribery, extortion, patronage, vote

buying, embezzlement and even pork-barrelling.

Against all that ethics stands for is favourism. This is in term of nepotism, tribalism,

racism among other forms of favourism. For an economy that intends to grow economically

and bring up steady business empires should watch out on all forms of favourism because it

weakens the governance and performance of a state or economy. When bribes and gifts

become normal even if one intends to make the right decision ends up thinking twice about it.

Eventually the temptation of accepting the bribes kicks in and one then bases his or her

decision on unfair facts. Some studies have gone an extra mile to show that there is a negative

correlation between the quality of investments that governments carry out and

corruption(Hodess, Robin 2004).

The negative correlation between corruption and governance leads to loss of trust in

the public and governance. Poverty levels are in turn perpetuated as the poor are left out on

the sharing of resources. It also leads to people undermining the rules of law leading to even

worse situations. Take an example of an economy that nobody cares what the government

does in the name of losing hope and trust in them. It would not be surprising that the same

government will not retaliate or stop misusing public funds and keeping some for themselves

for private interests. Instead, embezzling, corruption will drag the whole economy to the

ground and drain the government funds to the last bit. There is a necessity of having ethical

factors in every economy to prevent such a scenario or rather save an economy from see the

dawn of such a situation.

In the political arena, ethics should be highly practised and widely exercised to reduce

the many cases of political manipulations in governments, organizations and businesses.

Lobbying of funds meant for campaigns is highly unethical but that is the order of the day for

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Insert surname here 1 Name Tutor Corse Institution Political Corruption In the twentieth century, naturalism began to face rejection as most philosophers of the modern era began to assume that their topics of discussion were in line with the sciences in other words that ethics can be understood and explained in natural science. This is generally referred to as ethical naturalism. Ethical naturalism begins with the identity of goodness and how our interests can be satisfied through the preferred ways. An example is finding ways of cubing our many desires so that they do not lead us into doing or acquiring things outside the procedural scope. Ethics therefore is the good, the virtuous, the accepted, the allowed, the correct, the recommended, the approved ways of doing things and activities. Moreover, to some extent, ethics has depended on the human consciousness to survive and dominant. Aristotle, Socrates and Plato determined that ethics is the act that promotes one’s long term benefit producing a great and stable balance of the good deeds over the bad ones. But again it only the good deeds that count and that the outcome should not matter much than the nature of the act (Heidenheimer, Arnold 2007). Ethics on its own has some advantages and importance in society. First and foremost is to stop and if not minimize the misuse of government office, embezzlement of public funds and misuse of power by those individuals that hold high offices in governments. Ethics also helps I ...
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