“As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them distinct while recognizing their interactions. A valuable contribution to my thinking there and elsewhere was Ellen Meiksins Wood's Mind and Politics, which reinforced for me the ways in which seemingly disparate philosophical endeavors were/are interconnected, and although I have tended to give a certain priority to ethical considerations as part of practical reasoning, I am reminded often enough that this position makes some contentious presumptions .” ThinkingGivingTryingMindEnoughEthicsPhilosophicalValuablePrioritiesTensionConsiderationEthicalElsewherePresumption Author:John Kleinig
“In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was better able to see two sides to loyalty - its importance for certain central human relations such as friendships, but also its corruptibility in the sense that loyalty could be invoked against other moral constraints: it sometimes function as something of a moral Trojan horse, undermining other moral considerations.” SometimesMoralEthicsImportanceHorseRelationPoliceLoyaltyConsiderationHuman Relations Author:John Kleinig
“I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.” PoliticalJudgmentPrioritiesConsiderationEthical Author:John Kleinig