A politician must not be a man of the "true Christian ethic", understood by Weber as being the ethic of the Sermon on the Mount, that is to say, the injunction to turn the other cheek.
Importantly, critical public health ethics understands dilemmas as arising from institutional arrangements and power structures.
Critical public health ethics understands dilemmas not only as the result of behaviours of disease organisms and individuals, but also as resulting from institutional arrangements and prevailing structures of cultural attitudes and social power.
The idea that we ought to care about ethics, understood as Williams does, finds inspiration in the work of Aristotle.
Information ethics, understood in this very broad sense, is too important to be left only to information professionals or to philosophers.
Yet a philosopher reluctant to talk about "man as he ought to be" is plainly ill-suited to the task of developing a normative ethics, understood as systematic and theoretical guidance for how to live, whether that guidance comes in the form of rules for behavior or dispositions of character to be cultivated.
Instead, Williams suggests, we should care about ethics, where ethics is understood to address the most general question of how we ought to live.
Everyone understands ethics, but understanding how to demonstrate them in a way that builds consumer trust can be challenging.
"After I saw his work ethic, I understood right from the beginning that he was a special player and a special person.
Now, instead of wondering whether we're supposed to appreciate Lorena's work ethic, we understand that her newfound ability to embrace the unexpected has made her a stronger golfer and a stronger person.
