A Reflective Approach to Ethics in the Colombian Public Sector
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Abstract
This article is a reflection on the question about ethics and public matters, particularly the relationship between ethics and the public worker—public servant—that takes place in public action and the common weal. To that extent, the core theoretical reflection of this text revolves around Weber’s ethics, in the concepts of responsibility and conviction, their relationship with new public management, which aims to efficiency, efficacy, and results, as the Colombian State’s model of government, which allows to account for the principles and values of the ethics of responsibility the responsibility of this public servant. Furthermore, it is an attempt to defend his/her humanity in the presence of a public place which faces and questions it. and conviction. It is not only a reflection on the rationality of values—the means and ends that will guide this person’s actions—mediated by