Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?

Addressing agency motives vs. your own personal motives is a dichotomy in which every administrator must recognize when performing the duties of the office. The balance to achieve desired outcomes for growth of personal motives and balancing agency motives is based on rationale capabilities of reason while acting as an agent of the agency using pure practical reasons. Through an agency’s policy, the administrator is guided to perform in the most efficient manner to achieve outcomes desired by the agency. The motive provided, is typically by what is the greatest good for the benefit of the greatest number of citizens. The administrator is motivated by the law and acts to achieve a means to an end. The law is the binding argument of the reason for the action.

According to the video, Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 06: "MIND YOUR MOTIVES", the speaker uses Immanuel Kant’s ethical approach, which rejects Utilitarian approach. Kant embodies the approach as, all human beings have dignity, and all rationale beings are capable of reason or a capacity for reason, acting by choosing freely to determine the end itself. This approach is an instrument to what the individual pursues (Harvard, 2008). The concept differs from the Utilitarian approach as the ends are more of the duty and the action is morally worthy. Kant’s idea is represented as an action of the administrator, that one shouldn’t act on motives you would not want to be universal law. The reason for action must be made on the moral judgement, on the nature of the action, where the costs of the outcomes are