Thomas Nagel | Ruthlessness in Public Life

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Thomas Nagel | Ruthlessness in Public Life
Nagel discusses the effects of public roles on personal morality and determines that a depersonalization of, or moral insularity from, one's behavior can occur when people act as agents of a larger institution. He presents the theory of obligation as a way to understand this moral peculiarity, analyzes personal and public morality of outcomes and morality of actions, concluding that personal moral restraints can guide public life even with its more impersonal and impartial goals.
-According to Nagel, one of the hardest lines to draw in public policy is the one that defines where the

• A) means stop justifying the ends.
• B) means justify the ends.
• C) end stops justifying the means.
• D) end justifies the means.

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