The Problem of Moral Illiteracy in Professional Discourse: The Case of the Statement of Principles of the American Society for Public Administration

1 See Robert A. Goldwin , "Of Men and Angels: A Search for Morality in the Constitution," in Robert H. Horwitz (ed.), The Moral Foundations of the American Republic, Second Edition (Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1979), pp. 1-18.

2 See Benjamin R. Barger , "The Compromised Republic: Public Purposeless in America," in Horwitz, op. cit., pp. 19-38.

in Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde (eds.), Classics of Public Administration (Oak Park, Ill.: Moore Publishing Company, 1978), p. 10.

4 Max Weber in H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), p. 95.

5 See Erich Fromm , Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (New York: Fawcett Book Group, 1978).

6 Nicholas Henry , Public Administration and Public Affairs, Second Edition (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980), p. 132.

⁷ Ibid., p. 134.

8 Elizabeth Howe and Jerome Kaufman , "The Ethics of Contemporary American Planners," The APA Journal (July 1979): 243-254.

9 Quoted in J. D. Williams , Public Administration: The People's Business (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), p. 541.

10 Stephen K. Bailey , quoted in Dwight Waldo , The Enterprise of Public Administration (Novato, Calif.: Chandler and Sharp Publishers, Inc., 1980), p. 99.

11 Vincent Ostrom , The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration, Revised Edition (University, Ala.: The University of Alabama Press, 1974), p. 13.

12 Plato, Philebus , 66, quoted in William S. Sahakian , Ethics: An Introduction to Theories and Problems (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974), p. 49.