Quest for ethical values for a nice and sustainable political life is based on the advocacy focusing on natural moral standards and the available choices or options of judgment or behavior. Each and every society confines itself to given values, which could be perhaps inspired by specific purposes and committed to specific conceptions and goals for healthy life. Detailed overviews of everyday’s norms are the founding concerns of both the political philosophers, ethical theorists and political scientists. A Preamble of the United States of America Constitution, for instance, highlights the fundamental values that should be prevailing in the political society of America. “As a people belonging to the American States, for us to create a substantial Union, give for the defense of everyone, install domestic tranquility, establish justice for all, promote the welfare for all genders, invite liberty blessing and prosperity for ourselves, herein establish and ordain the Constitutional mandate of the US.” (Riemer et al p. 65-67) All other subsidiary constitutions and laws contain same stated goals, values and purpose.
Even though there is always an existence of widespread agreement in the most accepted general opinion on the values like justice, liberty, well-being in economic perspective, peace, and life, but the particular understanding of these values in specific situations, and their peaceful correlation with each other, always become a massive source of controversy. Actually most battles that are political in nature do focus on the expressed understanding on these values. Hence, when these values are critically examined, a standard political judgment can be established. Such standard will allow us to critique or support domestic laws, support or critique foreign policies or that establishment of actions taken by politicians, interest groups or government leaders as undesirable or desirable. In short, the ethical quest for a decent political life can be guided by both concerns of highest truth or most acceptable opinions.
Work Cited
Riemer, Neal, Douglas W. Simon, and Joseph Romance. The Challenge of Politics: An Introduction to Political Science. Washington, D.C.: CQ, (2014): 65-67 Print.
