"The price, then, that the professional study of ethics for bureaucrats exacts from the curriculum is that questions of political philosophy ("Is the regime just?") must yield to less fundamental questions such as "How can I promote the values of the regime?" The method of regime values eschews metaphysics and addresses the students in the existential situation in which it finds them—persons who have taken or are about to take an oath to uphold the values of a particular regime. It admonishes them that taking such an oath presupposes an acceptance of the fundamental justice of the regime but does not require into how the students arrived at the conclusion that the regime is just."
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John Rohr
John Anthony Rohr (July 31, 1934 – August 10, 2011) was an American political scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at . Rohr is particularly known as a leading scholar of the U.S. Constitution in relationship to civil servants and public administration.
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