Someone, many many years ago wrote: "[T]he temporal lords are supposed to govern lands and people outwardly. This they leave undone. They can do no more than strip and fleece, heap tax upon tax and tribute upon tribute, letting loose here a bear and there a wolf. Besides this, there is no justice, integrity, or truth to be found among them. They behave worse than any thief or scoundrel, and their temporal rule has sunk quite as low as that of the spiritual tyrants. . . . "
I feel one can even earlier to the distinction between sophist and phisophs in the Akademia!
Those are concepts that have been growing apart. In real situations there have been increasing cases - or just more evident? - of politicians compromising justice and integrity for their own interests. The study of integrity in the public sector is one of the most urgent problems to be solved nowadays. I am a PhD researcher developing a study on good regulations to approach the e-waste problem and, frequently, I could identify problems of implementation of laws or even delays on drafting laws due to conflict of interests and industry influencing politics ...
Politicians are far away to know what integrity and justice means to them as they have the believes they are elite, and have the power to do anything they wish to do.
To add on what has been already said, the words integrity and justice can hardly be associated with politicians. For politicians, these words exist only on paper. as we all know that politics is a dirty game, it is unlikely that politicians will ever be associated with justice and integrity.
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For sure this is a sensitive question. Thank you for raising it, Fr. Inocent-Mária Vladimír Szaniszló op !
That politics and truth are two different thinks
We can't address the political ethics problem without puting it into the social context, politicians are voted, they are the reflex of our societies, we won't be able to reach justice and integrity in politics without a social and cultural change. It's an educational problem.
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