Deviation of Ethics in Politics and the State

Abstract

The connection of mind and conscience (morality) gives rise to the highest degree of consciousness. Awareness is expressed as the ability to plan actions and anticipate their consequences. The common oundation of ethics and politics in ancient Greece is the idea of justice as the highest virtue in the actions of individuals. Citizens were expected to be both moral and capable of participating in politics. While ethics considers the actions of man as an individual, politics refers to mental action in a political community of free and equal citizens. Later, the distance between ethics and politics made it impossible for justice to be the sole goal of action. Morality is reduced to the inner voice of conscience, and politics to art. Modern man seeks benefit on the outside himself, and on the inside himself he can seek conscience or forget about it. The connection between ethics and politics comes to life through the concept of responsibility. The new approach is of the opinion that ethics can no longer be limited to the moral duties of the individual. Ethics must be oriented to humanity, the future, but also beyond that: to nature, the unborn, etc. Considering morality in the context of society, following the example of ancient times, opens the way for ethical thinking in politics and the state.