Ethics, Codes of Conduct and Integrity in the Brazilian Public Administration

• Autor(a) principal: Trescastro Bergue, Sandro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Administração Pública e Gestão Social
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufv.br/apgs/article/view/13459

Objective: examine the concepts of ethics and morals in the context of integrity programs on the rise in the Brazilian publicadministration, highlighting challenges and potential.Theoretical framework: defines public administration as a field in formation and transdisciplinary in the treatment of its objectsof investigation. It is based on the philosophy of how to do philosophical from problems and whose essential function is theproduction of contextualized concepts. It approaches ethics from deontological, utilitarian and virtues perspectives, also exploringthe concept of integrity from philosophy.Results: demonstrates the imprecision and limits regarding the appropriation of the concepts of ethics and moral conduct in theirexpression applied in public service, with the consequent weakening of efforts to codify conduct and the performance of ethicscommittees in integrity programs.Originality: proposes the philosophical work for the conceptual purification of ethics in relation to the meanings and potentialsof its different aspects in the process of appropriation of codes of conduct and performance of ethics committees in integrityprograms in public service.Theoretical and practical contributions: highlights the potential of philosophy as a philosophical practice based on problemssuch as an approach to appropriating ethics applied in a substantive way, transcending the current instrumentality in relation tothe established codes that are now more in line with a new element of bureaucracy with significant formalistic potential. It offersa conceptual perspective capable of supporting the reorientation of integrity policies, especially in content and form of codes ofconduct and the performance of ethics commissions as spaces for formulation, deliberation and education.